Beads

Museum number:

L-14820

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Alternate number:

20 (1938) (burial number)

Accession number:

Acc.806

Object count:

824

Count note:

not counted but weighed

Description:

String, saddle-shaped olivella beads"; "saddle" crossed out and "cupped" added above it in pencil. 659 cupped, 165 lipped (added in pencil). Multiple fragments of unanalyzed beads made up of shell.

Donor:

Jeremiah B. Lillard and Sacramento County Board of Education

Collection place:

CA-Sac-60, Sacramento County, California

Collector:

Jeremiah B. Lillard and Sacramento Junior College

Collection date:

unknown

Taxon:

Olivella

Object type:

archaeology

Accession date:

February 16, 1942

Context of use:

Burial.

Department:

NAGPRA-associated Funerary Objects

Dimensions:

weight 113.44 grams

Comment:

Piece count in ledger: "824" written in pencil. "Found" written in next to cat. number in ledger, refers to handwritten note in the front of the first volume of the Lillard ledger. The note reads: "Started checking specimens present in collection at U.C.M.A. on 3/8/50. Those present are marked "found" in back of catalogue number. W. Pendry".