Shell Money
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: New Guinea
label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, New Britain
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mendel Peterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.70.80.7
label: catalog number
content: 70.80.7
label: accession number
content: 288726
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Money, String of
label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
label: Other Terms
content: Shell Money, String of; Oceania; New Guinea, New Britain
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white/brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: native plant fiber string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cassowary (white (7)) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shells nassa (black (5)) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: strung on native fiber string (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: shell (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm