currency
- Museum number
- Oc1951,07.141
- Description
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Shell string (used for barter), currency made of cowrie shells. Two strands of vegetable fibre string are knotted through each end of the orifice of the shells.
- Dimensions
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Length: 73 centimetres
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Width: 2 centimetres
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
Shell string of cowrie shells, the backs of which have been rubbed off. Two strands of vegetable fibre string are knotted through each end of the orifice of the shells.
Oc1951,07.141-143 probably "shell strings used for barter."
Elema.
(Refers to the whole Oc1951,07 series):
A large ethnographical collection from the Namau and Ipi tribes of the Purari delta and Elema regions, Papuan Gulf, made by J.H.Holmes (missionary) between 1893 and 1900. The remainder of the collection (about one third) is in the Liverpool Museum.
See J.H.Holmes, "In Primitive New Guinea". See Eth Doc,1020 (M.S.Catalogue).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- Register information: Collection 'made by J.H. Holmes (missionary) between 1893 and 1900.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1951,07.141
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 16 (MS catalogue page number)