Nassa Shell Money
date: label: date made
content: 1775
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Papua New Guinea: New Britain
label: associated place
content: Papua New Guinea: New Britain
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Benjamin Stack, Harvey G. Stack, and Norman Stack
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.77.38.080
label: catalog number
content: 77.38.080
label: accession number
content: 1977.1211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Necklace, Fragment of
label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
label: Other Terms
content: Necklace, Fragment of; Oceania; New Britain Island
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shells, white nassa (16) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plant fiber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: woven into fiber (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 mm x 84 mm; 1/4 in x 3 5/16 in