- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A string of shell discs on plant fibre, used as money. [El.B 11/05/2011]
- Person
- Field collector Frederick Henry Drew
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Frederick Henry Drew
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Process Perforated, Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Length: max 490 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.54.42
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