Shell currency ring "wamayuwa" · Papua New Guinea, East Sepik - Yangoru Boiken · ID: 3043397
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Size
H: 23 cm
B: 20 cm
H: 9.1 inch
B: 7.9 inch
Description
giant clam, polished, yellowish patina, central opening: 8,3 cm in diameter, thickness: 3,8 cm.
Cut with bamboo saws from giant clam shells that are traded in from the coast. Such shell rings are used for currency for all major transactions: bride price, compensation, land payments.
The object Shell currency ring “wamayuwa” with the object ID 3043397 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 19.
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Comparing literature
Hamson, Michael, Art of the Boiken, Palos Verdes 2011, p. 226 ff.