4138

Porpoise Teeth String

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Porpoise Teeth String
SOLD
200.00USD+ buyer's premium (40.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 15 @ 16:57UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
Lot: 4138
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Title: Porpoise Teeth String
Description: Porpoise teeth are used as money throughout the Solomon Islands, for bride price, payments to burial parties, and the purchase of pigs. This string of over 150 porpoise teeth was worth over 15 shillings in 1933. See Opitz, pp. 263-65.
Low Estimate: 500
High Estimate: 900
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