Relic
- Object Name:
- Relic
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.16
- Description:
- "Wampum," consisting of four shells contained in small paperboard box. Shells are white, hollow, conical, and curved; longest 1", shortest 0.7". Box is square, with removable cover. Cover inscribed "Wampum" in ink. Cover imprinted "C. P. HERRICK, / APOTHECARY, / 4 Hill's Block, Tilton, N. H."
- Material:
- Shell
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Souvenirs, Shells, Apothecaries
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