Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: a circular label with metal rim attached to the object reads 'Coote Collection.'
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card: 'Shell bead necklace / currency. Many strands joined together. Broken in parts. Mainly white beads with a few red & black.'
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Money formed of at least nine strands of varying length, tied together at both ends. Predominantly formed of white tridacna shell beads with occasional sections decorated with red spondylus shell and black beads. On a cord of vegetable fibre.
Event Date 27/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Although there is no precise information re: the acquisition of this object, it is likely to have come from a collection formed by Walter Coote in the Pacific in 1880 and donated to the Museum by Mrs Barkley and Mrs Hornsby in 1941.
Event Date 27/8/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau