Lot 5713

Sale 78 · Important Australian & World Coins & Banknotes, The Lampard Collection, The James Atkinson Collection

New Guinea, important shell ring called Mwali or Toea (PNG one cent coin denomination is named after these items); from the Trobriand Islands where it is used in the Kula Trade Cycle, 65mm diameter, cut conus shell with attached decorations of shells, banana seed pods, banana leaf and glass seed beads, (Quiggin p.120). Extremely fine.