Shell money
- Museum number:
- 1-1557
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001557
- Alternate number:
- 141 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.17 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Dentalium shells, one string of 12 (one piece missing). Various decorations, including snake skin wrapping.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Taxon:
- Dentaliidae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shell money
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- 1903 and November 20, 1901
- Context of use:
- Money
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-