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In South Africa, ostrich eggs have been used as containers for
some 15,000 years, primarily for storing and carrying water. A small
hole is drilled in the egg, the inside cleaned out, and the shell
decorated. When it is filled with water, the hole is plugged with
grass or sealed with a limpet shell. This ostrich egg shell has
been engraved with figures of an antelope and an ostrich. It was
collected in 1872.
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database record 2004.142.1110
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