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  1. Dentalia Shell Money: Hi-qua, Alika-chik – The Quartux Journal

  2. Plant-based red colouration of shell beads 15,000 years ago in …

  3. Ancient Trade Networks — Republic of Archaeology

  4. Outside the Ethnographic Box: Native Trade Networks

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    Similarly, tribes from Vancouver Island would gather dentalium shells by the thousands from the bottom of the ocean. They would rake the shells from the Ocean floor and trade these shells as decorative and wealth goods into the regional trade networks.
    This is illustrated by the presence of Dentalium bisexangulum beads ( Fig 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8) derived from the Red Sea about 400 km to the south [ 41] and the beads of Dentalium sexangulum ( Fig 2.10) deriving from Miocene-Pliocene fossil deposits about 400 km further to the north, in the northern Levant [ 42 ]. Fig 2.
    Dentalia shells, a mollusk, is collected from the sea floor off of Vancouver Island and is used by native peoples in a broad region of North America. They grow up to 3 inches (or more) long for the North West Coast dentalia, while 2 inch dentalia are not uncommon and 1-1.5 inches are the most common.
    The green dentalia are said to grow in the Mediterranean, while very large giant dentalia, up to a foot long, grow off the coast of Vietnam. The Philippines serves as the principal trading areas for the shells, where they are processed and bleach before being shipped to worldwide markets.
  6. 20 Types of Mollusks: Species, Facts and Photos - TRVST

  7. Molluscabase - Dentalium (Dentalium) carolinense Conrad, 1862

  8. Dentalium politum Linnaeus, 1767 sensu O. G. Costa, 1851

  9. Dentalium sp. · BIODIDAC

  10. MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758