Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card: 'Shell bead necklace / currency? Broken. Red, black & white beads.'
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Two long strands of shell money on a cord of vegetable fibre, attached together at one end. Predominantly formed of red spondylus shell beads, with occasional sections alternating white tridacna shell and black beads.
Event Date 27/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
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 27/8/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau