Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Island of Malaita , Tafuliae. This lovely form of shell money is called Tafuliae. Our example comes from the island of Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. It consists of ten strands of red, white and black disks – about 1300 individual pieces in all.
The shell money is originally from Malaita in a group of people called Langa Langa, which is in the western coast of Malaita. |
On the Solomon Islands, broken shells are smoothed to uniform discs and collected in strings of ten to form tafuliae like this one, which were traditionally ... |
890,00 $ Tradition still demands the use of shell money on many occasions. The string is over 9 feet long with 10 strands. It is a major form of money in the Solomons. |
shell money; beautiful strings of painstakingly carved discs of shell which are strung together to make · 'tafuliae'. Each tafuliae has ten strings of coloured ... |
Shell money composed of strings of shell beads have been widely used in island Melanesia as bride wealth, payment for compensation, medium for. |
Place where the work was made: Malaita → Malaita Province → Solomon Islands; Cultural origin: Langalanga people; Date: late 19th century-early 20th century ... |
17 мар. 2006 г. · The traditional Langalanga shell money, called 'tafuliae', which is used widely in North Malaita for brideprice (Rau) and compensation (Keketoa ... |
The old tafuliae ar the Bougainville market (Frazer, op cit.). Most of the shells continue to come from the Langal types of shell are used: red, white and black ... |
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