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birok (pig money)

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Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Snail shell money
Dimensions
Length: 10 m
Material/Technique
Shell slices, Coconut discs, Pig tails, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 12420

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1895
    where
    Melanesia
    Bismarck Archipelago
    New Ireland
    Leura
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Carl Ribbe 1895
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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