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Skeleton of a Cucumber

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

March 23, 1807

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 21

Notes:

This object may have been the endoskeleton of a sea cucumber.

The Peale Museum recived two more of these from Philadelphia merchant Martin Alken on 7 Aug 1821 and 17 May 1822. Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, pp. 115, 119