Stone Money
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STONE. NO LETTERS RECEIVED. LABEL: "COIN OF YAP.--OF CORAL ROCK, WORKED OUT INTO THE SHAPE OF A LENS BY HACKING, PICKING AND RUBBING. THERE IS A LARGE PERFORATION IN THE CENTER. THESE LARGE, WORKED-OUT DISKS OF STONE ARE SIGNIFICANT OF THE WEALTH OF THE POSSESSOR. THEY ARE PLACED IN FRONT OF THE DWELLING OF A CHIEF WHOSE IMPORTANCE MAY BE JUDGED BY THE NUMBER OF STONE COINS WHICH HE MAY DISPLAY."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yap Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E176089-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money