Iron currency

Museum number:
5-4165
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050004165
Accession number:
Acc.2021
Description:
Iron currency; manufactured from native ore; elongate bar; twisted around long axis; hammered into flat ovoid at one end, flat triangular shape at other end; 42 cm long.
Donor:
Ray G. de la Haye
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Liberia; Western province; Bandi tribe
Culture or time period:
Bandi tribe
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Iron money
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Iron currency, accession number 5-4165, described as Iron currency; manufactured from native ore; elongate bar; twisted around long axis; hammered into flat ovoid at one end, flat triangular shape at other end; 42 cm long.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Iron currency, accession number 5-4165, described as Iron currency; manufactured from native ore; elongate bar; twisted around long axis; hammered into flat ovoid at one end, flat triangular shape at other end; 42 cm long.

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