Shell jewelry set, cocoa nut shell
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This set of shell jewelry was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It features a pair of earrings each made of a single small “cocoa nut shell” (echinochama arcinella linne) from Sanibel Island, Florida, that are attached by plater to a metal screw-type earring. There is also a shell clip made of a larger shell of the same kind attached by plaster to a metal clip. This set 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 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.6543
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6543
label: collector/donor number
content: 26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Jewelry Set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 2.2225 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm