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Object Number 2004.24.30678
Display Title iron money
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Money
  • Medium Of Exchange
  • Iron
Department Photographic
Date 1984
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Bene
  • Fang
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Equatorial Bantu; Cameroon, southern
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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Exchange medium
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Currency
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Spear Point
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Currency
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Currency
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Tools
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Currency
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