Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Shell necklace / currency'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
No labels or inscriptions.
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Context (Other owners)
There is no label or inscription on this object to indicate its provenance. The Z number register (#5) notes that it is associated to the Edgell collection [William Henry Edgell, whose collection came to MAA in 1923 and in 1961].
Event Date 26/8/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Four strands of shell money, attached at both ends with a knot (one strand broken at one end). Mainly formed of white shell beads, with occasional sections decorated with black beads and red shell beads. Strung on a cord of vegetable fibre.
Event Date 26/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Four strands of beads joined, although one is broken. The beads are largely white disc beads made of Anadara, but there are some zones of alternating white discs and dark seeds, and blocks of pink Chama beads. There are also a few individual Chama beads interspersed elsewhere. The beads are of various sizes and clearly derive from a variety of original sources. Some zones have beads of regular sizes that were ground together, but this is less true of this object than the preceding ones.
Event Date 9/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo