Shell money

Museum number:
1-4426
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004426
Alternate number:
3749 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.unknown
Description:
Dentalium shells, one string of 14 (one missing); on fiber cordage with twig at one end of cord and red and white thread at other; shell covered with snake skin at wide end
Donor:
unknown
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:
unknown
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1966-1967 #25: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (October 31, 1966–November 2, 1966), S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988), and S2002-2003 #9: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (December 20, 2002–April 7, 2003)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4426, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 14 (one missing); on fiber cordage with twig at one end of cord and red and white thread at other; shell covered with snake skin at wide end
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4426, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 14 (one missing); on fiber cordage with twig at one end of cord and red and white thread at other; shell covered with snake skin at wide endDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4426, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 14 (one missing); on fiber cordage with twig at one end of cord and red and white thread at other; shell covered with snake skin at wide endDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shell money, accession number 1-4426, described as Dentalium shells, one string of 14 (one missing); on fiber cordage with twig at one end of cord and red and white thread at other; shell covered with snake skin at wide end

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