Shell currency, small white shells string on a strip of wood. [El.B 19/08/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Shell currency, small white shells string on a strip of wood. [El.B 19/08/2011]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago New Britain
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1879
Date collected: ?Prior to 1879
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Shell, Material Wood Plant, Process Strung
Dimensions: Length: max 180 mm glass vial
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.99.12 Other numbers: 876 PR no.: 51/ 10010
Research and responses: 876 is a Godeffroy Museum 1881 catalogue no. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Currency, Token

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