Feather Money

117. A section of feather money (Tevau) found in a collectors or museum box with an old label. c1900.

Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands.

23cm x 5cm.

Tevau might be used as payment for valuable goods like pigs and boats or the payment of bride wealth. Tevau could also be used for presentations to ancestral spirits and reparation payments to resolve conflicts.

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