Beads

Museum number:
1-10909
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010909
Alternate number:
930 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Dunlap, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Dunlap
Culture or time period:
Wobonutc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "xomana
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Beads, accession number 1-10909, described as Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Beads, accession number 1-10909, described as Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Beads, accession number 1-10909, described as Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-10909, described as Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 1-10909, described as Clam shell. Very long, slender. The beads are said to have been made from the shell of a large species of clam brought from the ocean. They are perforated by means of a very slender bone point.

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