- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brass rod currency-bar, smaller unit
- Cultural groups
- Tiv
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- By 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1922
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Bent
- Dimensions
- Length 202 mm bundle, approx, Width 75 mm bundle approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1922.23.54.8
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