Shell bracelet, pearl snail shell
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This shell bracelet was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It is made of pearl snail shells (ubmonium giganteum lessor) from Japan. The shells are attached by metal hooks and rings to a green cord. This bracelet 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: Japan
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Lippincott Walwroth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.6527
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6527
label: collector/donor number
content: 9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.4775 cm