Shell necklace, pearl snail
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This shell necklace was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. The necklace is made of pearl snail (umbonium giganteum lesson) of Japan and purple olive (olivella biplioata sowerby) of California. The shells are attached by small metal rings to a green cord to make the necklace. This necklace is a part of a collection of 28 pieces of seashell jewelry made by Walworth and donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1940. This piece and entire collection illustrate modern shellcraft, or the making of decorative with seashells. Walworth was the author of <i>Shellcraft</i>, a 1938 publication about creating jewelry with shells.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Source of pearl snail shells
content: Japan: Japan
label: Source of purple olive
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Lippincott Walworth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.6519
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6519
label: collector/donor number
content: 1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.35 cm x 20.32 cm