Relic
- Object Name:
- Relic
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.013
- Place of Origin:
- Panama
- Date:
- 1852
- Description:
- Nut, vegetable ivory. Pair of large, hard, brown nuts. Surface is wrinkled, with a mix or black to light brown coloration. Each nut has a hole, where presumably a stem would have been attached. Accompanying note: "Vegetable ivory / from Isthmus / of Panama. / Picked up by / A. J. Stone 1852 / Nut is soft when / green."
- Material:
- Seeds
Vegetable ivory - Provenance:
- Collected by Andrew J. Stone while traveling to the California gold fields in 1852. Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- People:
- Stone, Andrew J. (1828-1864)
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