Beads
- Museum number:
- 1-71933
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010071933
- Accession number:
- Acc.838
- Description:
- Necklace with 150 clam shell disc beads, 15 faceted blue glass beads and one baked magnesite bead. Beads strung on looped and knotted cotton twine. L(looped) ca. 67 cm x bead disc dia 1.5 cm, per cat. card.
- Donor:
- Grace Blair DePue
- Collection place:
- North Central California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Pomo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1900-1944
- Materials:
- Clam shell (salt water), Glass (material), and Magnesite
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Beads (pierced objects)
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- February 19, 1945
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 50 inches, length 68 centimeters, and width 1.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1962-1963 #42: American Indian Film Project/David Wayne Peri (February 20, 1963–July 12, 1967), S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968), and S1997-1998 #4: Oakland Museum of California (January 16, 1998–December 9, 1999)
- Legacy documentation:
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