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:
width 1.5 centimeters, length 50 inches, and length 68 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)