Piece of iron (?) native money. Length: 18.5 cm; width: 10.5 cm.
Donor:
Simon Ottenberg
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; West Africa; Nigeria; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Simon Ottenberg
Collection date:
September 1960
Materials:
Iron (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Money (objects)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1961
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1961-1962 #81: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 22, 1962–May 22, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1971-1972 #147: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 24, 1972–May 24, 1972), S1974-1975 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (December 7, 1974–December 16, 1974), and S1979-1980 #71: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 12, 1980–June 16, 1980)