Shell money

Museum number:
1-4427
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004427
Alternate number:
3749 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.32
Description:
Dentalium shells, one string of 13 (3 missing); on fiber cordage, with hank of white thread at each end; wide end of shell snakeskin wrapped
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
February 1902
Materials:
Dentalium
Taxon:
Dentaliidae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell money
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
January 8, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979) and S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4427, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 13 (3 missing); on fiber cordage, with hank of white thread at each end; wide end of shell snakeskin wrapped
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4427, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 13 (3 missing); on fiber cordage, with hank of white thread at each end; wide end of shell snakeskin wrappedDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4427, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 13 (3 missing); on fiber cordage, with hank of white thread at each end; wide end of shell snakeskin wrappedDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4427, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 13 (3 missing); on fiber cordage, with hank of white thread at each end; wide end of shell snakeskin wrapped

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