Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Shell money [added later:] current in Solomon Islands, made in N. Malanta [sic]'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Accession register notes: 'Collected by donor. The Rt Rev. J. R. Selwyn, Missionary Bishop of Melanesia.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
A small oval label attached to the object reads: 'Z 32095' on one side and [in pencil] '1917.x' on the other.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
A label attached to the object reads: 'Solomon Islands / White shell-money, made in / N. Malaita. Current in / Florida and Ysabel / Bishop Selwyn'. [added later:] '1917.X' in pencil and 'Z 32095' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Note in Accession register for 1889.77: 'Current in Florida & Ysabel. Manufactured in N. Malanta [sic]'.
Event Date 1889
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1889.77: 'Shell money'.
Event Date 1889
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
The match between E 1889.77 and Z 32095 is based on the fact that 1) only one money [E 1889.77] was given to the Museum by Bishop Selwyn according to MAA's accession registers, 2) 1889.77 did not have a recorded location and 3) the description on the catalogue card and accession register match the object and the label accompanying the object.
Event Date 30/9/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Shell money formed of four strands of beads, strung on a cord of plant fibre. The beads are predominantly made of white tridacna shell with occasional red spondylus shell and black ?coconut shell beads.
Event Date 30/9/2015
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Four strands of predominantly white shell money, with some sections of alternating white shell discs and dark seeds. There are very occasional red (Chama pacifica) shell beads interspersed but the are not integrated in in any sort of pattern. Beads are a mixture of sizes and finishes with some being small, worn and rounded and others being larger with rougher peripheries.
The white beads are made of Anadara granosa. Some zones are of mixed sizes/finishes and have clearly been restrung, whereas other zones have beads that have been ground together on a single strand as a unit.
Event Date 1/11/2017
Author: Katherine Szabo