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05.09.1922
Yar | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Such mother-of-pearl bowls were used on Yap Island as a means of payment for specialist services, such as healing or tattooing. They also functioned as a return gift if food was given to a group or village on special occasions. They were classified as less valuable within the profusion of currencies on Yap - including the famous »stone money« - because it was abundant across the islands as a raw material. Shell money from large mother-of-pearl shells that had to be imported, on the other hand, was deemed highly valuable.
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- Object type
- Zahlungsmittel
- Material/Technique
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Shell, Coconut fibre
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/0768
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Caroline (location/origin)Yap (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)Micronesia (location/origin)
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who
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Karl Dreher - Collectors
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Oceania
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