Money

Museum number:
5-1818
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050001818
Alternate number:
D 12 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1383
Description:
Iron money, spear shape(melō mekama); 8" long, 2" wide ; (20.32 cm, 5.08cm) See card attached to 5-1817 more recent, turn of the century variety. Bound together in customary fashion---bundles of 10's or 20's.
Donor:
James W. Fernandez and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Gabon
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Gabon, Fang
Culture or time period:
Fang
Collector:
James W. Fernandez
Collection date:
1960
Materials:
Iron (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Iron money
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1961
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #13: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 12, 1963–September 13, 1963), S1971-1972 #147: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 24, 1972–May 24, 1972), and S1988-1989 #16: Heffernan Films (October 13, 1988–October 17, 1988)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Money, accession number 5-1818, described as Iron money, spear shape(melō mekama); 8" long, 2" wide ; (20.32 cm, 5.08cm) See card attached to 5-1817 more recent, turn of the century variety. Bound together in customary fashion---bundles of 10's or 20's.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Money, accession number 5-1818, described as Iron money, spear shape(melō mekama); 8" long, 2" wide ; (20.32 cm, 5.08cm) See card attached to 5-1817 more recent, turn of the century variety. Bound together in customary fashion---bundles of 10's or 20's.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Money, accession number 5-1818, described as Iron money, spear shape(melō mekama); 8" long, 2" wide ; (20.32 cm, 5.08cm) See card attached to 5-1817 more recent, turn of the century variety. Bound together in customary fashion---bundles of 10's or 20's.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money, accession number 5-1818, described as Iron money, spear shape(melō mekama); 8" long, 2" wide ; (20.32 cm, 5.08cm) See card attached to 5-1817 more recent, turn of the century variety. Bound together in customary fashion---bundles of 10's or 20's.

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