New Guinea Mother Pearl Moka Kina Currency Exchange Valuable Bride Price Item 12 For Sale -

KINA12: HUGE, CHECK THE PHOTO WITH MEASURING TAPE NEXT TO IT

Importantmoney exchange Shell currency collectorpiece collected in the field.

The polished, crescent-shaped shell with 2drilled holes at each end for the band to be attached is considered a trueobject of value. Some Kina Shells have a broad woven band, some have a simplecord with pulled up seed capsules as this one, or just a simple carrying cord. This piece was used by a chief and wecollected it on the premises in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Kina shells are used for bride price, bloodfeud paybacks, wealth displays and exchange festivals as well as for admissionto men’s clubs and secret societies \'s paper money is named after the Kinashell).

We have sold such ornaments to museums and they are 1/2 priced now as we are retiring.

KinaNecklace, KN12 : very large unique mother of pearl moon shape valuable piecefrom remote Papuan tribe. Read below for additional information on this piece.

We areclosing our doors so everything has been reduced!

Check Dominique RiceOceania Store in Sun Sentinel Newspaper, Fort Lauderdale, for information onour collection and authentic art.

If you have anyquestions, contact us or call for documents and further information on pieces.

Allour collector and rare items come with pages and pages of research aboutprovenance, and with history of the tribes and photos as well, depending onitem and whenever possible. When shipping internationally, we group shipmultiple purchases to save you money, and find the best rates which often failsto calculate right. If you have any questions or want to see research conductedon this piece and photos of tribes, email or call us.

Wehave artifacts and architectural accents up to 10 ft tall that we will put onupon request because shipping has to be calculated accordingly with truckingcompany.

Scarce Moka Kina Oceanic art shell jewelry fromPapua New Guinea:

Bride price, Blood Feud Valuable Riches’ raretrade item.

Compare at 500.00 dollars and up on theinternet

when you can find them this size in thissetting.

Kinas, mother of pearlnecklaces, are rare treasures from Papua New Guinea and a sign of wealth andprosperity for its owner, and they wereworn either alone or in multiples for special celebrations when warriors wouldwear a kina shell pectoral necklace as the focal point of their dress. Thesepectoral ornaments are made of large mother of pearl moon shaped pieces (thegold-lipped pearl shell: Pinctada maximums) cut into crescent shapes called kina). Size of the pendant alone isvery large here.

These pectoral are also often tinted with redochre, and sometimes decorated with small cowry shells set into resin paste(which we have some of as well). We can put these pieces on the buy it now uponrequest.

Shellspieces such as this are still used in traditional ceremonial payments as wellas pectoral adornments for special ceremonies: When the Leahy brothers came into the of searching forgold, they found people who valued the gold-lipped pearl shell as much as theminers valued gold. Shells are valuable all over PNG, but especially so in theHighlands where the traditional trading contacts between tribes slowly passedshells from ocean to mountain valleys.

The tribes from these rarelyvisited lands have lived in isolation for centuries due to the remoteness oftheir region and its difficult access. Their dress code has remained primitivefor centuries. Traditionally, the men wear no other clothing apart from a penissheath made of a cultivated gourd and known locally as a “horim” and somesimple ornamentation such as string hair nets, bird of paradise feathers andnecklaces with boar tusks or cowrie shells.

Wecarry many other artifacts we collect direct from the tribes, in East and WestPapua and the Trobriands and remote islands of Indonesia, and that we put at saleand on the buy it now in our store on a regular base.