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Curcuma Powder Containers

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 600.00 USD
Curcuma Powder Containers
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60.00USD+ buyer's premium (12.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: Curcuma Powder Containers
Description: An example of Yap Island reng currency, a coconut fiber curcuma powder container, plus a smaller example from Lamotrek Atoll, Central Caroline Islands, Micronesia; used as dye for body painting and as primitive money. See NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824, pp. 451-52 (both illustrated p. 451, lower right).
Low Estimate: 200
High Estimate: 600
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Pedigree/Collection: Smaller curcoma powder container ex eBay seller in Germany, May 13, 2007; larger obtained by Mr. Opitz on Yap, 2003.