Shell Beads (34a509)

Description

**Shell Beads** Location: Town Creek Mound (31Mg2), Montgomery County, North Carolina. Period: Mississippian, Pee Dee phase (AD 1150-1350). Material: marine shell. Dimensions: length, 29.0 cm; width, 25.9 cm (background size). Notes: Catalog no. 34a509 (22 beads). Mounted on modern deerskn. North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Sebastian Farris.