Primitive Money
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Lot 2614 Session 8 (2.30pm Thursday) Primitive Money
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $110
NEW GUINEA, flying fox teeth money as a necklace, (about 160 teeth in the necklace), (Opitz p.47). Very fine.
Opitz notes that these were also used in the New Ireland and the British Solomon Islands. On the later they were worth $1 per tooth.
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