Crescent Mother Pearl Warrior Adornment Moka Kina Guinea Bride Price Money KINA8

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Crescent Mother Pearl Warrior Adornment Moka Kina Guinea Bride Price Money KINA8:
$199.99

Important Tribal New Guinea money exchange currencycollector piece seen on most of the photos, a very large mother of pearl Kina moon shell necklace, we sell these to museums: Moon Shape mother of pearl pendant is large and wide. Very rare.

Kina Necklaceitem number KINA8 in our inventory large unique mother of pearlcrescent piece from remote Papuan tribe seen onall the photos besides the one showing tribal memberswearing them. Read below for additional information on this piece.

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We have artifacts and architectural accents up to 10 ft tall that we will put on upon request because shipping has to be calculated accordingly with trucking company.

Scarce Moka Kina Oceanic artshell jewlery from Papua New Guinea:

Bride price, blood FeudValuable Richestrade item

Kinas, mother of pearl necklaces, are rare treasures from Papua and a sign of wealth and prosperity and were worn either alone or in multiples for special celebrations when warriors would wear a kina shell pectoral necklace as the focal point of their dress. These pectoral ornaments are made of large mother of pearl moon shaped pieces (the gold-lipped pearl shell: Pinctada maximums) cut into crescent shapes called kina). Size of the pendant alone is very large here.

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

These pectoral are also often tinted with red ochre, 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 upon request.

Shells pieces such as this are still used in traditional ceremonial payments as well as pectoral ornements for special ceremonies: When the Leahy brothers came into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea searching for gold, they found people who valued the gold-lipped pearl shell as much as the miners valued gold. Shells are valuable all over New Guinea, but especially so in the Highlands where the traditional trading contacts between tribes slowly passed shells from ocean to mountain valleys.

The tribes or Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have lived in isolation for centuries due to the remoteness of their land and its difficult access. Their dress code has remained primitive for centuries. Traditionally, the men wear no other clothing apart from a penis sheath made of a cultivated gourd and known locally as a “horim” and some simple ornamentation such as string hair nets, bird of paradise feathers and necklaces with boar tusks or cowrie shells.

We carry many other artifacts we collect direct from the tribes, in East and West Papua and the Trobriands and remote islands of Indonesia, and that we put at sale and on the buy it now in our store on a regular base.