Shell
- Museum number:
- 1-225475
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010225475
- Alternate number:
- 2-9899 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.100CC
- Description:
- Dentalium shells.
- Donor:
- Rose Goldsmith
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Northern California; Northwestern California
- Culture or time period:
- California tribes
- Collector:
- Seafaring relative of Rose Goldsmith
- Collection date:
- April 1911
- Taxon:
- Dentaliidae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shell samples
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- April 1912
- Context of use:
- Medium of exchange.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
-