Primitive Money
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Lot 2618 Session 8 (2.30pm Thursday) Primitive Money
Estimate $80
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, dogs eye teeth money as a necklace, (49 teeth in the necklace), (Opitz p.41). Very fine.
Opitz notes that a dog's tooth was worth 10 taro roots or 10 coconuts and 100 teeth were worth $5 or one pig in 1929 on the Admiralty Islands.
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