This coin is used for a variety of transactions, such as buying canoes, paying the price of a wife or blood, paying fines, making offerings to the spirits of the deceased in order to conciliate them, as well as obtaining pigs and food. – From A. Vanderstraete in Monnaies, objets d’échange, Afrique, Asie, Océanie, Genève, Paris, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Somogy Éditions d’art, 2016, p. 194.

Artist: Eastern Solomon Islands

Place of Design: Eastern Solomon Islands

Made in: Eastern Solomon Islands

Shell, coconut fiber and tortoise shell

Size: 75cm

Museum: Musée Barbier-Mueller