Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 31484: 'Shell necklace / currency. Grey in colour.'
Event Date
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], but doesn't explain what evidence this statement is based on.
Event Date 26/8/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Six strands of currency formed of three lengths which are looped. All the ends are gathered and tied. Predominantly formed of white shell beads, with occasional sections decorated with black beads and red shell beads. In very good condition.
Event Date 26/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.34.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Analysis)
Three strands doubled over of white Anadara shell discs with zones of alternating white discs and dark seeds, and blocks of red Chama discs. Beads are all well-finished and show some wear and polish. Long sections of the Anadara strands were clearly ground together, but other sections are irregular representing more random restringing.
Event Date 9/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo