TERA Gallery - African Art and Antiquities

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Type of Object:     
    Purr Purr  Money


    This rusted metal strip, pinched and bent upwards, was used as
    currency in the Congo

Ethnic Group:             
    Tshokwe Society


Country of Origin:          
    Nigeria

Material:                       

Deminsions:

Reference:                  
    An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money by Charles J. Opitz