Money
- Museum number:
- 5-1821
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050001821
- Alternate number:
- D 15 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1383
- Description:
- Spear-shape piece of iron(ekwéla) ; 7 ¼" long, 2" w ; (18.42 cm, 5.08 cm) used for currency See card attached to 5-1817
- 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:
- 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)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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