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Object Number
2000.29.35
Display Title
Currency, water heater
Descriptions
Object Description
Currency; water heater
Inventory Description
Currency, flat iron bar, diamond shape, perforated with iron ring and twisted ba
Classification
- Exchange medium
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Nigeria
Additional Geographic Terms
Nigeria, north; Benue area?
Materials
Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 56 x 10 x 0.6 cm (22 1/16 x 3 15/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2000.29.35
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Rapoport, MD and Jane Hughes
Provenance
Collector
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Jane Hughes
(12/10/2000)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000.29.39 | "Tajere" currency |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
Cameroon | |
| 2000.29.28 | Snake currency |
Exchange medium
|
Burkina Faso
| |
| 2000.29.65.1 | Currency, lamp form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.52 | Currency, large coil form |
Exchange medium
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.11 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.1 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
Chad Cameroon | |
| 2000.29.63.1 | Currency, dance rattle |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.103 | "Anchor" currency |
Exchange medium
|
Gabon?
Congo? | |
| 2000.29.12 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Gabon
| |
| 2002.1.351 | Metal - hammered fragment, "T" shape, fragment of Liberian currency bar? |
Exchange medium
|
Liberia
| |
| 2000.29.51 | Currency, small coil form |
Exchange medium
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.59 | Currency, unknown form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
|