Necklace
- Museum number:
- 1-225477
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010225477
- Accession number:
- Acc.2635
- Description:
- Dentalium shells, double strand, on cotton string.
- Donor:
- Barbara E. Busch
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Northern California; Northwestern California
- Culture or time period:
- California tribes
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1971
- Taxon:
- Dentaliidae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Necklaces
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- Necklace (longer shells used as medium of exchange).
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 74 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-