Shell

Museum number:
5-11708
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050011708
Alternate number:
B-1749 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
Description:
String of cowry shells
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Accra, Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ghana; Accra
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1943
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shell samples
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1971 and December 15, 1972
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 136 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: V-28-2. Exhibited: Central School, Sausalito 1965.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 5-11708, described as String of cowry shells
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 5-11708, described as String of cowry shells

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