KAGIN'S MARCH 11-15, 2021 AUCTION

Lot: 40062 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Feather Coil Money Tools! Description: Among the many great rarities in this auction, this is probab

Lot: 40063 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Fish hook Money Description: In Guadalcanal, and Marshall and Ellis Islands, fish hooks were made f

Lot: 40064 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Marshall Islands Fish Hook Description: This fish hook, from the Marshall Islands, is entirely of sh

Lot: 40065 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flying Fox Ear Fur Description: In New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, fur from under the ears of

Lot: 40066 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Alor Island Gong Description: A fine gong from Alor Island; they formed part of bride price and dowr

Lot: 40067 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Clam Shell Ring[ Description: A hato ime, a clam shell ring with a concave circumference. See Opitz,

Lot: 40068 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Prostitute Payment Money Description: Another clam shell ring, called a hokata, with a circular cros

Lot: 40069 Year: Denom: Header: Title: A Second Example Description: A second hokata, equally fine. See Opitz, pp. 158-59. Low Estimate: 20

Lot: 40070 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Carved, Painted Hornbill Beak Description: From the Trobriand Islands comes this hornbill beak, with

Lot: 40071 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Plaited Coil Money Description: Natives of the Marshall Islands plaited black and white palm leaf st

Lot: 40072 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flores Island Bride Price Pendant Description: Attractive pendants in the shape of a linked double a

Lot: 40073 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Flores Island Pendants[b/] Description: A pair of Flores Island takas, both cut from sheet metal: a larg

Lot: 40074 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Silver Bride Price Pendant Description: A beautiful taka in silver (once gilt?), with circular raise

Lot: 40075 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Variant Flores Island Pendant Description: Another taka in silver, a different type without bosses b

Lot: 40076 Year: Denom: Header: Title: San Matthias Currency Mat Description: Finely woven mats made of pandamus fibers, dyed red and orang

Lot: 40077 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Sumba Female Mat Description: A beautiful woven mat of light-colored fiber, with a pattern highlight

Lot: 40078 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Vanuatu Mat Description: On Vanuatu, only women made mats, but men traded them in distant districts.

Lot: 40079 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Polished Greenstone Axe Blade Description: For a Māori of New Zealand to cede title to land,

Lot: 40080 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Beautiful Māori Polished Nephrite Weapon Description: The Māori mere is a short, bro

Lot: 40081 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Wooden Māori Weapons Description: A pair of authentic Māori meres: (1) reddish wood,

Lot: 40082 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Replica Fijian War Club Description: Full-size replica of a feared Fijian war club, totokia type wit

Lot: 40083 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Rangasake Shell Pendant Description: This tridacna shell pendant, called a rangasake, is triangular,

Lot: 40084 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Shark Tooth Sword Collection Description: A collection of 8 fearsome shark tooth swords from Gilbert

Lot: 40085 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Collection of Malaita Shell Money Necklaces Description: Six attractive, perfect, shell necklaces fr

Lot: 40086 Year: Denom: Header: Title: More Malaita Shell Money Necklaces Description: Another collection of six Malaita shell necklaces, f

Lot: 40087 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Old Giant Clam Shell Ring Description: A very old poata, a ring carved from the shell of the gi

Lot: 40088 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Solomon Islands Skull House! Description: Solomon Islands skull house (empty - no skull), a reliquar

Lot: 40089 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Greenstone Solomon Islands Axe Money Description: A huge example of Solomon Islands greenstone

Lot: 40090 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Rare Sosorofa String, Trobriand Islands Description: In the Trobriand Islands, centrally-pierce

Lot: 40091 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Levuka Village, Kandavu Island, Fiji, Bead Money, Ex Gibbs Description: Fiji Islands, Levuka Village

Lot: 40092 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Perfect New Tafuliae' String Description: Tafuliae' is the general name for strings of spondylu...

Lot: 40093 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Olive Shell Necklace, Torres Straits Description: In the Torres Straits, a necklace of olive shells

Lot: 40094 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Old Examples of Woven Décor Description: Two fine examples of old woven décor from t

Lot: 40095 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Additional Oceania Woven Décor Description: Two additional examples of Oceania woven d

Lot: 40096 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Roviana Lagoon Betrothal Gift Money Description: Around the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, foot-lo

Lot: 40097 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Shell Armband Money Description: On Yap Island, shell armbands made from a single shell were called

Lot: 40098 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Beautiful Pearl Shell Women's Money Description: On Yap Island, yar nu au—considered women'

Lot: 40099 Year: Denom: Header: Title: 100 Fathoms of Coconut Rope Description: Yap Island coconut rope called au used as traditional money

Lot: 40100 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Curcuma Powder Containers Description: An example of Yap Island reng currency, a coconut fiber curcu

Lot: 40101 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Copper Rod Money Varieties Description: Two examples of African copper rod currency, both about 10"

Lot: 40102 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Iron Currency Hoe Description: Blacksmiths of the Chamba people of Nigeria made huge "hoes&qu...

Lot: 40103 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Amber Bead Necklace Description: A modern necklace of large, graduated amber beads, over 20" long. S

Lot: 40104 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ornamental Axe Money Description: An ornamental iron "axe" used as currency in Cameroon and N...

Lot: 40105 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Machete-Size Bride Price Knife Description: The Azande Tribe used well-made, machete-length, decorat

Lot: 40106 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Zaire Slave-Buying Money Description: A fine boloko from Zaire, a well-known African copper currency

Lot: 40107 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Colorful String of Dutch Beads Description: An attractive unit featuring colorful Dutch beads (glass

Lot: 40108 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Brass and Amber Beads Description: Two groups of antique beads collected in Africa: (1) a string of

Lot: 40109 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Antique "Alley" Bead Description: A single antique "alley" bead, a clear glass sphe...

Lot: 40110 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ambassador, Lewis & Clark Beads Description: Ambassador beads were so-called by the Ndebele Tribe be

Lot: 40111 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Large Chevron Bead String Description: A string of very large chevron beads, which were highly value