String of Cowries

Unidentified maker (New Caledonia)

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1943

Cowrie, red seed and string

Overall: 30 5/16 in. (77 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Chester Beede

170.31.24687

Geography

Place Made: New Caledonia, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Adornment

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Course History

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

CLST 18.01/HIST 94.06, History of the Roman Empire, Roberta Stewart, Fall 2022

Economics 22.01, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023

Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023

Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Money Talks: Roman Coinage in Global, Historical Context, Classical Studies 11, Professor Roberta Stewart, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 2, 2022-.

Provenance

Collected by Laurence Legates, stationed in New Caledonia and New Guinea, about 1943; given to Barbara Jean Beede, Enfield, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1970.

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