birok (pig money) | Photographer: Leonie Gärtner
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birok (pig money)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cataloguing data
Object type
Snail shell money
Dimensions
Länge: 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 [Großregion]
Bismarck Archipelago [Inselgruppe]
New Ireland [Insel]
Leura [Ort]
Papua New Guinea [Land]
Description
Purchase from Carl Ribbe 1895
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