“Yua” Shell Barter Currency Size:Height On Stand: 12.25” Specimen Diameter: 9.00” Handwoven With Cotton Thread

Handwoven With Cotton Thread

Mounted on a precision solid bronze stand

Millions Of Years Old

Mounted on a precision solid brass stand

25” Freight & Packing Upon RequestItems of considerable weight and large volume will have freight and packing calculated upon request

“Yua” Shell Barter Currency Size:Height On Stand: 12.25” Specimen Diameter: 9.00” Handwoven With Cotton Thread17 4 20 Yua shell bride price barter currency. Arapesh, Abelam, and Boiken peoples of the Sepik River region of the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. These antique yua have been used for decades as barter currency. To create such great pieces of prestige, a two week trek from the highlands had to be made to coastal villages where goods were traded in order to acquire these shells. Once the shells were in their possession to create the yua the