4134

Highly Valuable Bride Price Piece

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Highly Valuable Bride Price Piece
Lot: 4134
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Title: Highly Valuable Bride Price Piece
Description: A second mwali, this with all the elements of the previous lot, only more so. Further enhanced by a dainty covering of seed beads in a zig-zag pattern of alternating colors. A highly desirable element in bride price! See Opitz, pp. 233-34; this example pictured in the NNP edition, https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/541824, p. 375, upper left.
Low Estimate: 1400
High Estimate: 3000
Pedigree Collection: Purchased from natives in the Trobriands when there in 1995.