New Caledonia, Becket, 16.5cm (Quiggin pp.168-9, fig. 65). Extremely fine, very rare (£200-250)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Macdonald Collection of Primitive Currency.

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Plate VI. Plaited with hair from flying foxes (Pteropus, a fruit eating bat) and banana or palm fibres, knotted at one end, looped at the other and then dyed, the Becket served as both a spear thrower and currency