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Bani'au Bride Price Money

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Bani'au Bride Price Money
SOLD
500.00USD+ buyer's premium (100.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 23 @ 11:21UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
Lot: 4055
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Title: (b)Bani'au Bride Price Money[/b]
Description: Bani'au consist of six strands of shell beads, each six arm lengths long, made of small coneshell beads enhanced with red beads. It is unique to Malaita Island, Solomon Islands. Called by the Kwara'ae tribe "red money," it was used for bride price. See Opitz, p. 32. This example illustrated in NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824?page=44, left center.
Low Estimate: 1000
High Estimate: 2400
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