artefact;
currency
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.965
- Description
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Artefact, currency made of pearl-shell, coconut fibre, coconut fibre string.
- Dimensions
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Height: 38 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 1944 register:
Composite object: a gold-lip pearl shell, drilled for the attachment of a handle of coconut fibre with binding of twisted coconut fibre string.
Observations column:
Yap, Caroline Is
"Currency, called JARA or WORWOINO - WOTSCHEI"
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.965
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2038 (Original Beasley Collection Number)