Primitive money · D. R. Congo, Katanga · ID: 3032254
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Provenance
Eduard Hess, Basel, SwitzerlandSize
B: 22 cm
B: 8.7 inch
Description
copper, in form of a St. Andrew’s cross, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
one cross was worth 10 kilos of flour, 5-6 fowls, 3 or 4 kilos of rubber, or 6 axes.
Comparing literature
Opitz, Charles J., An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money, Ocala 2000, p. 124