- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Strings of shell beads, used as currency. [El.B 13/05/2011]
- Long description
- Strings of shell beads, used as currency. Four strings of mainly red shell beads tied together. One pair of strings terminates in a length of white shell beads incorporating a larger shell disc and a turtleshell disc, ending in a tassel of white shell bead strings with halved seeds. The other pair of strings terminates in a length of white shell beads incorporating a larger shell disc and a metal button, ending in a tassel of white shell bead strings. [El.B 13/05/2011]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884
- Date collected
- Prior to 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Bead, Material Plant Fibre, Material Plant Seed, Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material Metal, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1600 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.99.9 PR Cat other PR nos: 3342
1884.99.9
Strings of shell beads, used as currency. [El.B 13/05/2011]
1884.99.9
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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