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birok (pig money)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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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

when
before 1895
where
Melanesia
Bismarck Archipelago
New Ireland
Leura
Papua New Guinea
who
Ribbe, Carl - Collectors
Description
Purchase from Carl Ribbe 1895

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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