Fanning Island Necklace

Name/Title

Fanning Island Necklace

Entry/Object ID

2024.605.7

Description

Shell necklace made in Tabuaeran, 2006. Tabuaeran is an island in the central Pacific, also known as Fanning Island. Captain Edmund Fanning of Stonington was the first European to spot the island from his ship Betsy on June 11, 1798, and it was named for him.