KAGIN'S MARCH 11-15, 2021 AUCTION

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

Lot: 40112 Year: Denom: Header: Title: "Hippo" Beads, Cowry Shells Description: In West Africa, chiefly Nigeria and Ivory Coast, cat...

Lot: 40113 Year: Denom: Header: Title: King Beads, Amber Beads Description: Examples of two kinds of classic African trade beads are offere

Lot: 40114 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Secto of Perfect Idar-Oberstein Beads Description: Perhaps the most striking African trade goods ar

Lot: 40115 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Iron Bell Description: Huge iron bell from Nigeria, over a yard long. See Adolfo Bartolomucci,

Lot: 40116 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Heavy, Grooved Copper Bracelet Description: The Bidda Trobe of Nigeria cast heavy grooved copper bra

Lot: 40118 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Fascinating African Anklet Description: A cast bronze or brass African anklet of uncertain origin; i

Lot: 40119 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Antique Burkina Faso Woman's Bracelet Description: An antique bronze bracelet as worn by women in Bu

Lot: 40120 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Decorated Brass Bracelet Description: A well-decorated bracelet of sheet brass, made in Cameroon. Se

Lot: 40121 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Upper Congo Copper Chain Money Description: In the Upper Congo River region, rings of thick copper w

Lot: 40122 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Choice Katanga Cross Description: The famous "Katanga Cross," so-called "wife-buying mon...

Lot: 40123 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Desirable Shaman-Used "Rain Wands" Description: Nigeria, Mumuye or Chamba people, a sheaf of ...

Lot: 40124 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Impressive Iron Rod Money Description: Also from Nigeria comes an impressive showpiece, an iron rod

Lot: 40125 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Zaire "8" shapes, Nigerian Iron Money Description: In Zaire, native copper was beaten into fi...

Lot: 40126 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Copper Double Spiral Description: In Cameroon and Zaire, thick copper wire was formed into wearable

Lot: 40127 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Heavy Nigerian Dowry Bracelet Description: Giant manilla-like brass bracelets with square ends, very

Lot: 40128 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Iron Hoe Money Description: When David Livingstone explored Central Africa in 1868, he frequent

Lot: 40129 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Iron Spearpoint Money, Kwanyama Bridegroom Status Token Description: In Gabon, Cameroon, and Equator

Lot: 40130 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Valuable Elephant Tail Money Description: A fine example of desirable elephant tail money, a must fo

Lot: 40131 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Mongo People Copper Rod Currency Description: In the Kinshasa area of the Congo, the Mongo people of

Lot: 40132 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Congo Execution Knife Description: While hard to believe, special knives used to execute slaves at t

Lot: 40133 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Fan (Fang) Tribe Bikĕi Miniature Axes Description: Mary Kingsley visited the Fan (or Fang) T

Lot: 40134 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Iron Double Gong Description: Large iron double gongs without clappers are found in Nigeria

Lot: 40135 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Large Iron Gong Description: Another large iron gong, in this case a single instrument used for ritu

Lot: 40136 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Rare Earliest Kissi "Pennies" Description: Before 1900 Kissi blacksmiths began making lo...

Lot: 40137 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Rare Nigerian Cup-Shaped Iron Currency Description: Per Ballarini, The Perfect Form: On the Track of

Lot: 40138 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Iron Hoe Money Description: A second example of Nigerian iron hoe money, this one with a na

Lot: 40139 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Mushroom-Shaped Iron Hoe Description: A third African iron hoe, of mushroom shape with diamond-shape

Lot: 40140 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Mambila People Iron Currency Hoe Description: A fourth currency hoe, this one with double cutouts at

Lot: 40141 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Slave-Buying Iron Hoe Money Description: A final example of traditional African iron "hoe" mo...

Lot: 40142 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Brass Bracelets Description: A pair of Nigerian brass bracelets of the nupe type, character

Lot: 40143 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Copper Bracelet, Antique Kuba Kingdom Knife Description: Another Nigerian currency, per Bal

Lot: 40144 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Iron, Copper Traditional Currencies Description: Two further examples of traditional money:

Lot: 40145 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Rare, Unattributed Iron Currency Objects Description: Two examples of small (10"-11") Af...

Lot: 40146 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ceremonial Kuba Tribe War Sword Description: The war sword of the Kuba Tribe was called an iloon; 20

Lot: 40147 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Restricted to High-Ranking Women and Chiefs Description: This strange double-pointed knife is called

Lot: 40148 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Iron Throwing Knife Money Description: A long iron throwing knife currency from the Congo; see Balla

Lot: 40149 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Powerful Kusu Knife, on Stand Description: The Kusu people of the southeastern Congo made steel kniv

Lot: 40150 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Wife-Buying Legband Money Description: Bronze legbands with a design of three raised bands were used

Lot: 40151 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Kundja Pattern Iron Hoe Money Description: In the Congo, iron hoes of a particular pattern were call

Lot: 40152 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Variant Pattern Kundja Description: A second kundja, of a different pattern. This piece illustrated

Lot: 40153 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Giant Liganda Spearheads, Both Primary Denominations Description: In Central Africa, in the 19th and

Lot: 40154 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Mangbetu Iron Hoe Money Description: The Mangbetu people of northern Zaire made short iron hoes call

Lot: 40155 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Old Excavated Manilla Description: A centuries-old excavated manilla, 4" wide—possibly a 16

Lot: 40156 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Rare Coiled "Manilla" Description: A rare copper coiled "manilla;" not a true manil...

Lot: 40157 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Another Coiled "Manilla" Description: Another coiled "manilla," also not a true man...

Lot: 40158 Year: Denom: Header: Title: True Coiled Manilla[/b/] Description: A further coiled manilla, of triangular cross section and with pro

Lot: 40159 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Very Old Coiled Manilla Description: A final coiled manilla, with four coils and rudimentary flared

Lot: 40160 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Rare Twisted manilla Description: A large, excavated twisted manilla (or a very tightly wound coiled

Lot: 40161 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian "Marriage Coin" Description: From Nigeria comes a manilla-size ring with spiral desi...

Lot: 40162 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Igbo Tribe Anklet Money Description: The Igbo Tribe of Nigeria used highly decorated anklets of copp

Lot: 40163 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Pair of Brass Anklets Description: A complete pair of antique brass anklets with simple corrugated d

Lot: 40164 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Fulani Iron Currency Rods Description: Square iron currency rods with an enlarged, eye-shaped center

Lot: 40165 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Nigerian Bride Price Axe Description: Also from Nigeria, villagers near Obomasso made nonfunctional

Lot: 40167 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Kinshasa Iron Hoe Money Description: Special iron hoes, called ntsengo or lumboma, were used as mone

Lot: 40168 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge Curved Copper Ingot Description: In Zaire mboles, heavy copper or bronze ingots were made shape

Lot: 40169 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Even Larger Curved Copper Ingot Description: Another bronze ingot from the same region, of similar s

Lot: 40170 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Famous Raffia Cloth, Original Description: Also from Zaire, in the Kasai region of the Congo, member

Lot: 40171 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Ivory Coast Women's Anklets Description: Members of Ivory Coast Baoulé people made large, ho

Lot: 40172 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Antique Berber Necklace Description: From North Africa comes an antique Berber silver/silver-washed

Lot: 40173 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Berber Silver Necklace Description: A second antique Berber necklace in silver, with two triangular

Lot: 40174 Year: Denom: Header: Title: Huge North African Necklace or Hanging Decoration Description: A huge antique North African necklace