Necklace

Museum number:
1-71876
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Necklace made of dentalia shells. Interspersed with occasional indigo colored glass beads; multicolored cotton ribbons where strands bunched.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
California tribes and Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
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 35 feet
Loans:
S1962-1963 #14: Samuel A. Barrett (September 24, 1962–October 11, 1962), S1975-1976 #43: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1975–March 23, 1978), and S1983-1984 #48: Hoopa Tribal Museum (May 15, 1984–September 21, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-71876, described as Necklace made of dentalia shells. Interspersed with occasional indigo colored glass beads; multicolored cotton ribbons where strands bunched.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-71876, described as Necklace made of dentalia shells. Interspersed with occasional indigo colored glass beads; multicolored cotton ribbons where strands bunched.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-71876, described as Necklace made of dentalia shells. Interspersed with occasional indigo colored glass beads; multicolored cotton ribbons where strands bunched.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 1-71876, described as Necklace made of dentalia shells. Interspersed with occasional indigo colored glass beads; multicolored cotton ribbons where strands bunched.

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