Bride Price Currency, Rare Vintage Ceremonial Moka Kina Shell Necklace (Huge Mother of Pearl Crescent) with Beaded Chain, Pectoral Collected from the Foi Tribe (New guinea), late 1900’s, Highly Collectible. KINA14

Shells are Gold to the remote tribes of the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and Kina jewelry is, with balers, the most important of all. Beautiful Rare Authentic Old Tribal Kina Ceremonial Necklace with hand carved Beads and metal tubes, prized pectoral decoration from the Foi Tribe, highlands of Papua New Guinea. Mount-Hagen area. ( late 20th Century). Large and beautiful. This vintage Gold lip shell (Pinctada maximums) was carved in a ½ moon shape from a gigantic shell, also called the Kina (as the local money’s name is). Shell has uneven edges in places as expected from a shell. Item KINA14, South Pacific. Measures approximately: 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" (size of crescent alone), strands are 16” each, total necklace is 21” long.   (Papou Pygmy Tribe Body Art, also valuable currency used as money to this day) This object of value from Papua New Guinea (PNG), an important Pectoral adornment considered currency in trade or exchanges, has passed from hand to hand, as a prize possession, many tim