Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Short length of shell money'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
'21.565.67' inscribed in black ink on the object. A small label attached to the object reads 'Solomon Id' in pencil on one side and '21.549' in pencil on the other side.
Event Date 1921
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Short length of white shell money. Highly polished.
Event Date 7/10/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
A short string of tightly-strung white disk beads. They're produced from gastropod, although not Pterygia. These appear most likely to be Conus, but perhaps different species given that a very few have purple blotches that relate to patterning/pigmentation. They are well ground on faces and around the periphery with only subtle traces of the aperture. There is some rounding but most of the polish seems to relate to the original grinding/finishing. It is very short and apparently not restrung, so it is either a section of a larger strand, or a demonstrative short strand as seen with the Hamburg/Hingston-Quiggin material.
Event Date 3/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo