Primitive Money
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Lot 2617 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, (20 teeth in the necklace), this set has most teeth with an additional series of lines and hatching as an engraving on the lower half of each tooth, (Optiz 41). Very fine.
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