Shell

Museum number:
1-14092
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010014092
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Clamshell. "Of the species from which shell-money was made.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Bodega Bay
Culture or time period:
Coast Miwok
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell money and Shell samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 12.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1968-1969 #22: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (September 18, 1968–September 18, 1968)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-14092, described as Clamshell. "Of the species from which shell-money was made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-14092, described as Clamshell. "Of the species from which shell-money was made.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-14092, described as Clamshell. "Of the species from which shell-money was made.

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