Cowry Shell
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1263.00639
label: accession number
content: 1979.1263
label: catalog number
content: 79.112.OC192B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cowry Shell Money
label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
label: Other Terms
content: Cowry Shell Money; Oceania, South Pacific
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shell, cowry (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow/orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: natural (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 17.9 mm x 25.5 mm; x 11/16 in x 1 in