Shell Money

Culture: Middle Sepik artist
Date: 20th century
Material: Trocus shells, nassa shells, bush string
from: East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
Classification: Bone & shell, coins & currency
Collection: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: length of trocus shells: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
length of nassa shell section: 54 3/4 in. (139.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Morton D. May
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 1474:1983

by 1975 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914–1983), St. Louis, MO, USA [1]

1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [2]

Notes:
[1] Morton D. May lent this object to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1975 [loan number 1975.363].

[2] Last Will and Testament of M. D. May dated June 11, 1982 [copy, May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 20, 1983.

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