Shell earrings, scallop shell
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This pair of shell earrings was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Each earring is made of a single scallop shell (plagioctenium gibbus linne) from Sanibel Island, Florida, attached by plaster to screw-type metal earrings. This pair of earrings 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 shells
content: United States: Florida, Sanibel Island
setName: label: See more items in
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.6541
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6541
label: collector/donor number
content: 24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Earrings
label: Object Name
content: shell earrings, pair of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 5.715 cm x .9525 cm