Shell

Museum number:
5-10295
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050010295
Alternate number:
B-1697 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819
Description:
Money? string of cowry shells; tightly bound; double row.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Accra, Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ghana; Purchased at Accra
Collector:
Berta Bascom
Collection date:
1943
Materials:
Shell (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell samples
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1971
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 138 centimeters
Comment:
Collected in 1945; PAHMA Storage Loc: V-28-2
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 5-10295, described as Money? string of cowry shells; tightly bound; double row.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 5-10295, described as Money? string of cowry shells; tightly bound; double row.

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