Shell Money
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Oceanic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chase Manhattan Bank
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1263.00452
label: accession number
content: 1979.1263
label: catalog number
content: 79.112.00343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Money, Pig (Birok)
label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
label: Other Terms
content: Shell Money, Pig (Birok); Oceania; New Ireland
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: birok shells (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: native fibers (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: shells strung on braided fiber (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 500 mm; x 19 11/16 in