Copper Money
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BAR OF WORKED (HAMMERED) COPPER BENT INTO SHAPE OF A BOW. USED AS MONEY. "ALONG THE SANKURU AND KASAI COPPER RODS ARE BENT INTO CROQUET-HOOP FORM WITH BLUNTED ENDS. THESE, CALLED "BOLOKO" BY THE BUSHONGO, AND "KONGA" OR "KUNGA" BY THE BASONGE...FORM THE ORDINARY TRADING CURRENCY...." QUIGGIN "A SURVEY OF PRIMITIVE MONEY" P. 79."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Songye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204471-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30 cm