Description (Labels & Markings)
A small label tied to the object reads: '1927.157 [crossed off] / San Cristoval / Drew' and [added later:] 'Z 32111'. A label glued to the card reads: 'String of shell beads / used as Money in the / SOLOMON ISLES / from Admiral Denham's collection / H.M.S. Herald'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
A note in von Hügel's hand at the back of the card reads: 'Admiral Sir H. M. Denham FRS died in 1887. From 1852 to 1861 he was Captain of HMS "Herald" in charge of the Fiji Ids & Pacific Survey & no doubt then collected the shell beads.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'String of shell beads used as currency.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
There is a conflict between the two numbers connected to this object: 1927.157 is a Denham/Ridgeway object while Z 32111 is a Drew object. Please amend this record if either of those objects is found in another box.
Event Date 6/10/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Length of shell money, predominantly formed of small red shell beads. A section at one end is made of a blue trade bead and white shell beads.
Event Date 6/10/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Small red shell beads; a single and probable partial strand. At one end there is a length of white shell beads separated from the red by a single blue glass seed bead. The beads are small (c. 4mm) and very smoothly finished and with high polish.
The white beads are of Anadara granosa and the red beads are predominantly of Chama pacifica.
Event Date 1/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo