Currency (uncertain)
2003-32-337
From: Micronesia (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-337 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Micronesia (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Shell | Coconut Shell | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Ten segmenets of alternating white shell and dark brown coconut shell discs strung on brown, twisted plant fiber cord. Not necessarily from the same string. Compare 180070B - Gilbert Islands. Exhibited at L'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900, where it was labelled as a necklace of pieces of shell and coconut shell, from Tahiti. |
| Length | 43 cm |
| Width | 5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16573 - Other Number |
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