Woman's money piece / shell dish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1950s
name: label: Collector
content: Shigeru Kaneshiro
label: Donor Name
content: Shigeru Kaneshiro
notes: label: Notes
content: Fragment of two tone tortoise shell. Freeform shape with flat bottom. According to curator Adrienne L. Kaeppler, tortoise shell dishes, such as this are used as woman's valuables in social exchange. These objects were made of the sections of the carapace of hawksbill tortoises and given by women to the wives of men in their clan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2034606
label: USNM Number
content: E431556-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shell Money
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 7.9 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.2 cm