Iron currency

Museum number:
5-10227a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210510227a@2dc
Alternate number:
B-2275a-c (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819
Description:
Currency; iron; twisted rods with flat ends.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Guinea, Loma (Murdock 33:25; ro Kisi (Murdock 33:12))
Culture or time period:
Loma
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
ca. 1948
Materials:
Iron (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Currencies (systems of money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Buzi money
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
Ends:— 42.6 centimeters
Comment:
Gift of Liberian student at Northwestern Univ. , ca. 1948. AN OBJECT BEARING THIS BASCOM NUMBER IS LOCATED IN V 4-BASCOM-2. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-1-1
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Iron currency, accession number 5-10227a-c, described as Currency; iron; twisted rods with flat ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Iron currency, accession number 5-10227a-c, described as Currency; iron; twisted rods with flat ends.

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