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Kōrero: Shellfish

Close-up of a tusk shell necklace

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Close-up of a tusk shell necklace

Tusk shells are the curved hollow tubes of burrowing shellfish, and were often used to make necklaces. Fossil tusk shells are common in some rocks around Southland.

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Otago Museum

Reference: D51-379-1

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – Chitons, tusk shells and rare classes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/object/8035/close-up-of-a-tusk-shell-necklace (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.