Currency (Talipun)
ClassificationsSculpture
Datemid 20th Century
Made AtPapua New Guinea
MediumLygodium vine fiber, paint and cassowary feather
Dimensions19 × 9 × 3 in. (48.3 × 22.9 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineBowers Museum Purchase
Object number77.56.3
DescriptionTalipun are one of the oldest forms of currency in New Guinea. Combining a giant green snail shell, and typically a woven representation of an ancestral face, then pigmented and accentuated with cassowary feathers, the currency is exchanged as bride price in conjunction with other valuables.On View
Not on viewCollections
20th Century
late 19th to mid 20th Century
