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GUSN-2213
Four small circular white button-sized discs drilled at center with hole, tied together with red satin ribbon to card with inscription.
trade beads
beads (pierced objects)
carving (processes)
shell (animal material)
shell (animal material)
Shell
Carved
BEAD
In script, in ink, on both sides of paper tag: ""Beemerville 2-18 1901 / Genuine Wampum Indian / Beads Presented by Ralph Space [or Spale?]. over / Their [sic] were three kinds of beads / white blue and black the Indians / used for money the white was the least value / Sussex NJ"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.214
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