Description (Labels & Markings)
Wisbech Museum label attached to object, reads: 'Indian Ornament Picked up on the shore of Pampa [sic] Bay. Florida, March 18th 1856 Mr J W Gibbons'
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Context (Field collection)
Very old piece of card found with objects reads: 'An ornament worn by the Indians who inhabited the southern part of the continent of North America, some three or four hundred years since. Picked up on the shore of Tampa Bay Florida, one of the U. States, March 18th, 1856 by J.W. Gibbons.'
Event Date 18/3/1856
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1949.229 A-B: 'A rectangular piece of ?shell and a cylindrical roughly shaped piece with a groove at one end. Date and use uncertain.'
Event Date 1/1949
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Worked piece of shell, made from the columella of a conch, broadly cylindrical in shape with two flattened sides, tapering in width at both ends, one end with incised line. Possibly a sinker for a fishing net, or ornament.
Event Date 16/4/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck