Description (Labels & Markings)
A small copper label has been punched with 'C 2159' [Templeton Crocker number].
Event Date 1934
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
A note on the object's catalogue card reads: 'N.N. [Native Name] SAU. Made at Makira Harbour. From the atolls of Santa Catalina or Santa Ana'.
Event Date 1934
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
A small rectangular label attached to the object reads '34,280' in black ink.
Event Date 1934
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Shell money formed of four strings of beads strung on a fibre cord and tied together at each end. The beads are predominantly white and red shell beads with occasional black seed beads and dark blue glass beads.
Event Date 30/9/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Currency made of small perforated disks of clam shell'.
Event Date 30/9/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Four strands tied together with object being approx 180cm long. Dominantly white, Anadara beads with sections of red/Chama pacifica beads at the centre of the necklace. Occasional red beads are also interspersed, singly or in small groups, at other irregular points. The beads are well ground but show distinctly less wear than E 1902.189. The red beads present a similar pattern with fine finishing and minimal usewear. The red beads are more irregular in size and come from a variety of original strands.
Event Date 1/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo