Shell fragments

Museum number:
1-14091
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010014091
Alternate number:
234C (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Small broken pieces of clam shell, from which shell money beads were made.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tulare Lake, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California, Tulare County, Tulare Lake; Yokuts (?)
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions), Shell money, and Shell samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Used to make shell money beads.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Piece count on card: "1", description is plural.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shell fragments, accession number 1-14091, described as Small broken pieces of clam shell, from which shell money beads were made.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell fragments, accession number 1-14091, described as Small broken pieces of clam shell, from which shell money beads were made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell fragments, accession number 1-14091, described as Small broken pieces of clam shell, from which shell money beads were made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell fragments, accession number 1-14091, described as Small broken pieces of clam shell, from which shell money beads were made.

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