Necklace

Museum number:
1-258513
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, and Acc.4300
Description:
Two rows of clamshell disc beads (double i.e. two layers) from which are pendant 16 triangles of Haliotis rufescens (one with tip broken off) connected by pink and blue "seed" beads. Cordage to go around neck is 2-ply commercial cotton and plaited commercial cotton.
Donor:
Laura Thompson Duker and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
North Central California Coast
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Coast Miwok
Collector:
David Wayne Peri
Collection date:
ca. 1960
Taxon:
Haliotis rufescens (red abalone)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces and Plaited weaving
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1906 and January 20, 1988
Context of use:
Dance ornament for men and women.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
14.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-258513, described as Two rows of clamshell disc beads (double i.e. two layers) from which are pendant 16 triangles of Haliotis rufescens (one with tip broken off) connected by pink and blue "seed" beads. Cordage to go around neck is 2-ply commercial cotton and plaited commercial cotton.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-258513, described as Two rows of clamshell disc beads (double i.e. two layers) from which are pendant 16 triangles of Haliotis rufescens (one with tip broken off) connected by pink and blue "seed" beads. Cordage to go around neck is 2-ply commercial cotton and plaited commercial cotton.

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