Shell pendant, scallop shell
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This shell pendant was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It is made of a scallop shell (plagiocentenium gibbus linne) from Sanibel Island, Florida, suspended from a necklace composed of seed beads (orgophana tahitinnsis pease) from the Society Islands strung on a small white thread. This pendant 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 objects 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 scallop shell
content: United States: Florida, Sanibel Island
label: Source of seed beads
content: French Polynesia: Société, Îles de la
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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.6544
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6544
label: collector/donor number
content: 27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Pendant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 5/16 in x 13 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 5.87375 cm x 33.3375 cm