Currency Bar, (Guinze)

19th - 20th century

Kissi/Toma

Sierra Leonean

Liberian

Guinea

Iron

18 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in. (45.7 x 6.4 x 0.6cm)

Partial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn

2007.189

Photo by Tom Joyce

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998

Published ReferencesBallarini, Roberto, Ferri e Monete, dell'Africa Equatoriale, Milan: Galleria Africa Curio, 1998

Schadler, Karl-Ferdinand, trans. Geoffrey P. Barwell. Earth and Ore: 2500 Years of African Art in Terra-Cotta and Metal. Eursburg: Edition Minerva Hermann Famung, 1997

Opitz, Charles P. An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money. Ocala, Florida: First Impressions Printing, Inc. 2000

Rivallian, J. and A.F. Iroko. Les Collections Monetaires. VIII: PaleMonnaies Africaines. Paris: Administration des Monnaies et Medailles, 1986 p. 13-14

Lohse, Wulf and Huberte Goote. Other People's Money. Zug, Switzerland: Huberte Goote Gallery, 1995 p.27

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