The Testimony of Hands

61.9.75

61.9.75, pendant
Abalone shell
California, Native American
Transfer from the Lowie Museum
Photograph by B. Bernard

This pendant is beautiful, yet technologially simple: a piece of shell, cut into a rectangle, with holes drilled at two corners. It is 8 centimeters (3 inches) long. The typical blue highlights of abalone shell do not show in this photograph but are apparent in natural light. Besides finding widespread use along the U.S. West Coast, abalone shell artifacts were traded deep into North America. A second pendant from the same collection follows below.

61.9.49

61.9.49, pendant
Abalone shell
California, Native American
Transfer from the Lowie Museum
Photograph by B. Bernard

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