Shell Money
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Papua New Guinea: New Britain
label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, New Britain
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.NU69502.7
label: accession number
content: 245613
label: catalog number
content: NU69502.7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Money Tekakoro
label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
label: Other Terms
content: Shell Money Tekakoro; Oceania; New Britain,New Guinea/Gilbert Is
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shell conus (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shell coconut (52) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: native fiber string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: strung on fiber string (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10 1/2 in; 26.67 cm