Shell brooch, pearl snail shells, jingle shells
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This shell brooch was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It is made of pearl snail shells (umbonium moniliferum lamarck) from Japan, and some unidentified polished shells (gioula sp. (?)). These shells are cemented to some jingle shells (anomia simplex orbigny) sourced from Sanibel Island, Florida, which are cemented to a circular brooch pin. This brooch 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 pearl snail shells
content: Japan
label: Source of jingle shells
content: United States: Florida, Sanibel Island
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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.6533
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6533
label: collector/donor number
content: 15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Brooch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 in x 7/8 in; 1.905 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.2225 cm