KAGIN'S MARCH 11-15, 2021 AUCTION

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KAGIN'S 2021 AUCTION
MARCH 11-12, 2021 (MARCH 15 INTERNET ONLY)
TIBURON, CA 94920






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Feather Coil Money Tools!40062 - Feather Coil Money Tools!
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40062 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Feather Coil Money Tools! Description: Among the many great rarities in this auction, this is probab
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 450.00
Sold for (260.00 + 52.00BP) = 312.00
 
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Fish hook Money40063 - Fish hook Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40063 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Fish hook Money Description: In Guadalcanal, and Marshall and Ellis Islands, fish hooks were made f
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 500.00
Sold for (130.00 + 26.00BP) = 156.00
 
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Marshall Islands Fish Hook40064 - Marshall Islands Fish Hook
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40064 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Marshall Islands Fish Hook Description: This fish hook, from the Marshall Islands, is entirely of sh
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 400.00
Sold for (90.00 + 18.00BP) = 108.00
 
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Flying Fox Ear Fur40065 - Flying Fox Ear Fur
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40065 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flying Fox Ear Fur Description: In New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, fur from under the ears of
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 700.00
Sold for (30.00 + 6.00BP) = 36.00
 
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Alor Island Gong40066 - Alor Island Gong
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40066 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Alor Island Gong Description: A fine gong from Alor Island; they formed part of bride price and dowr
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 450.00
Sold for (90.00 + 18.00BP) = 108.00
 
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Clam Shell Ring[40067 - Clam Shell Ring[
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40067 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Clam Shell Ring[ Description: A hato ime, a clam shell ring with a concave circumference. See Opitz,
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Prostitute Payment Money40068 - Prostitute Payment Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40068 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Prostitute Payment Money Description: Another clam shell ring, called a hokata, with a circular cros
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (210.00 + 42.00BP) = 252.00
 
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A Second Example40069 - A Second Example
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40069 Year: Denom: Header: Title: A Second Example Description: A second hokata, equally fine. See Opitz, pp. 158-59. Low Estimate: 20
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Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Carved, Painted Hornbill Beak40070 - Carved, Painted Hornbill Beak
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40070 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Carved, Painted Hornbill Beak Description: From the Trobriand Islands comes this hornbill beak, with
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Plaited Coil Money40071 - Plaited Coil Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40071 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Plaited Coil Money Description: Natives of the Marshall Islands plaited black and white palm leaf st
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Flores Island Bride Price Pendant40072 - Flores Island Bride Price Pendant
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40072 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flores Island Bride Price Pendant Description: Attractive pendants in the shape of a linked double a
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (60.00 + 12.00BP) = 72.00
 
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Flores Island Pendants[b/]40073 - Flores Island Pendants[b/]
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40073 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flores Island Pendants[b/] Description: A pair of Flores Island takas, both cut from sheet metal: a larg
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Silver Bride Price Pendant40074 - Silver Bride Price Pendant
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40074 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Silver Bride Price Pendant Description: A beautiful taka in silver (once gilt?), with circular raise
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (70.00 + 14.00BP) = 84.00
 
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Variant Flores Island Pendant40075 - Variant Flores Island Pendant
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40075 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Variant Flores Island Pendant Description: Another taka in silver, a different type without bosses b
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Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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San Matthias Currency Mat40076 - San Matthias Currency Mat
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40076 Year: Denom: Header: Title: San Matthias Currency Mat Description: Finely woven mats made of pandamus fibers, dyed red and orang
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Sumba Female Mat40077 - Sumba Female Mat
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40077 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Sumba Female Mat Description: A beautiful woven mat of light-colored fiber, with a pattern highlight
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (60.00 + 12.00BP) = 72.00
 
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Vanuatu Mat40078 - Vanuatu Mat
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40078 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Vanuatu Mat Description: On Vanuatu, only women made mats, but men traded them in distant districts.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (80.00 + 16.00BP) = 96.00
 
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Polished Greenstone Axe Blade40079 - Polished Greenstone Axe Blade
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40079 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Polished Greenstone Axe Blade Description: For a Māori of New Zealand to cede title to land,
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 250.00
Sold for (120.00 + 24.00BP) = 144.00
 
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Beautiful Maori Polished Nephrite Weapon40080 - Beautiful Maori Polished Nephrite Weapon
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40080 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Beautiful Māori Polished Nephrite Weapon Description: The Māori mere is a short, bro
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 400.00
Sold for (290.00 + 58.00BP) = 348.00
 
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Wooden Maori Weapons40081 - Wooden Maori Weapons
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40081 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Wooden Māori Weapons Description: A pair of authentic Māori meres: (1) reddish wood,
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 800.00
Sold for (450.00 + 90.00BP) = 540.00
 
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Replica Fijian War Club40082 - Replica Fijian War Club
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40082 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Replica Fijian War Club Description: Full-size replica of a feared Fijian war club, totokia type wit
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 1,000.00
Sold for (190.00 + 38.00BP) = 228.00
 
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Rangasake Shell Pendant40083 - Rangasake Shell Pendant
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40083 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Rangasake Shell Pendant Description: This tridacna shell pendant, called a rangasake, is triangular,
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Estimate : 300.00 - 700.00
Sold for (170.00 + 34.00BP) = 204.00
 
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Shark Tooth Sword Collection40084 - Shark Tooth Sword Collection
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40084 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Shark Tooth Sword Collection Description: A collection of 8 fearsome shark tooth swords from Gilbert
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 500.00
Sold for (370.00 + 74.00BP) = 444.00
 
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Collection of Malaita Shell Money Necklaces40085 - Collection of Malaita Shell Money Necklaces
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40085 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Collection of Malaita Shell Money Necklaces Description: Six attractive, perfect, shell necklaces fr
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 500.00
Sold for (60.00 + 12.00BP) = 72.00
 
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More Malaita Shell Money Necklaces40086 - More Malaita Shell Money Necklaces
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40086 Year: Denom: Header: Title: More Malaita Shell Money Necklaces Description: Another collection of six Malaita shell necklaces, f
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 500.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Very Old Giant Clam Shell Ring40087 - Very Old Giant Clam Shell Ring
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40087 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Old Giant Clam Shell Ring Description: A very old poata, a ring carved from the shell of the gi
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (140.00 + 28.00BP) = 168.00
 
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Solomon Islands Skull House!40088 - Solomon Islands Skull House!
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40088 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Solomon Islands Skull House! Description: Solomon Islands skull house (empty - no skull), a reliquar
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 700.00
Sold for (90.00 + 18.00BP) = 108.00
 
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Huge Greenstone Solomon Islands Axe Money40089 - Huge Greenstone Solomon Islands Axe Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40089 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Greenstone Solomon Islands Axe Money Description: A huge example of Solomon Islands greenstone
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 500.00
Sold for (100.00 + 20.00BP) = 120.00
 
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Very Rare Sosorofa String, Trobriand Islands40090 - Very Rare Sosorofa String, Trobriand Islands
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40090 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Rare Sosorofa String, Trobriand Islands Description: In the Trobriand Islands, centrally-pierce
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 450.00
Sold for (70.00 + 14.00BP) = 84.00
 
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Levuka Village, Kandavu Island, Fiji, Bead Money, Ex Gibbs40091 - Levuka Village, Kandavu Island, Fiji, Bead Money, Ex Gibbs
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40091 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Levuka Village, Kandavu Island, Fiji, Bead Money, Ex Gibbs Description: Fiji Islands, Levuka Village
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 800.00
Sold for (130.00 + 26.00BP) = 156.00
 
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Perfect New Tafuliae' String40092 - Perfect New Tafuliae' String
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40092 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Perfect New Tafuliae' String Description: Tafuliae' is the general name for strings of spondylu...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 350.00 - 800.00
Sold for (70.00 + 14.00BP) = 84.00
 
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Olive Shell Necklace, Torres Straits40093 - Olive Shell Necklace, Torres Straits
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40093 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Olive Shell Necklace, Torres Straits Description: In the Torres Straits, a necklace of olive shells
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Old Examples of Woven Décor40094 - Old Examples of Woven Décor
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40094 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Old Examples of Woven Décor Description: Two fine examples of old woven décor from t
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 650.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Additional Oceania Woven Décor40095 - Additional Oceania Woven Décor
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40095 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Additional Oceania Woven Décor Description: Two additional examples of Oceania woven d
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Roviana Lagoon Betrothal Gift Money40096 - Roviana Lagoon Betrothal Gift Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40096 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Roviana Lagoon Betrothal Gift Money Description: Around the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, foot-lo
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 700.00
Sold for (190.00 + 38.00BP) = 228.00
 
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Shell Armband Money40097 - Shell Armband Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40097 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Shell Armband Money Description: On Yap Island, shell armbands made from a single shell were called
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 250.00 - 600.00
Sold for (140.00 + 28.00BP) = 168.00
 
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Beautiful Pearl Shell Women's Money40098 - Beautiful Pearl Shell Women's Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40098 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Beautiful Pearl Shell Women's Money Description: On Yap Island, yar nu au—considered women'
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 700.00
Sold for (460.00 + 92.00BP) = 552.00
 
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100 Fathoms of Coconut Rope40099 - 100 Fathoms of Coconut Rope
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40099 Year: Denom: Header: Title: 100 Fathoms of Coconut Rope Description: Yap Island coconut rope called au used as traditional money
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold for (90.00 + 18.00BP) = 108.00
 
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Curcuma Powder Containers40100 - Curcuma Powder Containers
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40100 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Curcuma Powder Containers Description: An example of Yap Island reng currency, a coconut fiber curcu
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 600.00
Sold for (60.00 + 12.00BP) = 72.00
 
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Copper Rod Money Varieties40101 - Copper Rod Money Varieties
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40101 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Copper Rod Money Varieties Description: Two examples of African copper rod currency, both about 10"
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Huge Iron Currency Hoe40102 - Huge Iron Currency Hoe
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40102 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Iron Currency Hoe Description: Blacksmiths of the Chamba people of Nigeria made huge "hoes&qu...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (130.00 + 26.00BP) = 156.00
 
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Amber Bead Necklace40103 - Amber Bead Necklace
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40103 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Amber Bead Necklace Description: A modern necklace of large, graduated amber beads, over 20" long. S
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 500.00
Sold for (300.00 + 60.00BP) = 360.00
 
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Ornamental Axe Money40104 - Ornamental Axe Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40104 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ornamental Axe Money Description: An ornamental iron "axe" used as currency in Cameroon and N...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 450.00
Sold for (70.00 + 14.00BP) = 84.00
 
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Machete-Size Bride Price Knife40105 - Machete-Size Bride Price Knife
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40105 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Machete-Size Bride Price Knife Description: The Azande Tribe used well-made, machete-length, decorat
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (70.00 + 14.00BP) = 84.00
 
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Zaire Slave-Buying Money40106 - Zaire Slave-Buying Money
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40106 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Zaire Slave-Buying Money Description: A fine boloko from Zaire, a well-known African copper currency
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 250.00
Sold for (60.00 + 12.00BP) = 72.00
 
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Colorful String of Dutch Beads40107 - Colorful String of Dutch Beads
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40107 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Colorful String of Dutch Beads Description: An attractive unit featuring colorful Dutch beads (glass
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 210.00
Sold for (140.00 + 28.00BP) = 168.00
 
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Brass and Amber Beads40108 - Brass and Amber Beads
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40108 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Brass and Amber Beads Description: Two groups of antique beads collected in Africa: (1) a string of
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 220.00 - 405.00
Sold for (40.00 + 8.00BP) = 48.00
 
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Antique "Alley" Bead40109 - Antique "Alley" Bead
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40109 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Antique "Alley" Bead Description: A single antique "alley" bead, a clear glass sphe...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Ambassador, Lewis & Clark Beads40110 - Ambassador, Lewis & Clark Beads
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40110 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ambassador, Lewis & Clark Beads Description: Ambassador beads were so-called by the Ndebele Tribe be
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold for (50.00 + 10.00BP) = 60.00
 
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Large Chevron Bead String40111 - Large Chevron Bead String
Kagin's, Inc
Lot: 40111 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Large Chevron Bead String Description: A string of very large chevron beads, which were highly value
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 350.00
Sold for (80.00 + 16.00BP) = 96.00
 
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