Rod money
- Museum number:
- 5-14033b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2105014033b
- Accession number:
- Acc.3566
- Description:
- Currency; wrought iron; twisted rods flattened in oval shape at one end, double-pointed at other end; one end broken; double-pointed end missing.
- Donor:
- Alvin O. Pierce
- Collection place:
- Sierra Leone
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa; Sierra Leone/ Guinea; Kisi
- Culture or time period:
- Kissi
- Collector:
- Alvin O. Pierce
- Materials:
- Metal
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Rod money
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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