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

Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Shell necklace / currency. Grey in colour.'
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)
Single strand of shell money on a cord of vegetable fibre. Predominantly formed of white tridacna shell beads, with occasional red spondylus shell beads.
Event Date 26/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Single strand of white shell discs with occasional red Chama beads interspersed singly or in pairs. The beads show some wear and some sectors have clearly been restrung (as evidenced through the mismatches of sizes and shapes). The white beads are manufactured from Anadara.
Event Date 7/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo