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Hi Avril,
I read your notice and found a picture I took for a friend of a
Dentalium Purse used by the Hoopa tribe, here in Humboldt Co., California.
It's on a CD Disc and I can send it to you, if you'd like.
Dan
>This afternoon, I am busy editing my Trade & Exchange Page on my Internet
>Resource section of Man and Mollusc. As per usual I always go searching
>for new sites and information to add. I came across this interesting bit
>of 2002 new on re-establishing shell currency. Has anyone else come
>across this? and What do you think?
>
>Counting shells
>http://www.abc.net.au/asiapacific/focus/pacific/GoAsiaPacificFocusPacific_4
>92267.htm
>
>There are fears in PNG that a new bank for traditional shell money could
>undermine cultural traditions.
>
>The East New Britain provincial government has plans to have shell money
>function as a parallel system to the country's official currency, the
>kina.
>
>But as Pacific Beat's Sonya De Masi reports, there are some concerns about
>the implications for an important part of the region's heritage.
>
>The Tolai people have traditionally limited the use of shell money or
>'tabu', to the fulfillment of traditional obligations and some
>transactions.
>
>They include payment of bride price and at funerals, some land
>transactions and as a medium of exchange at village markets.
>
>The provincial government is eager to encourage people to use shell money
>more often, rather than accumulating large reserves in their homes....
>
>____________
>
>The article goes on but that you can read on your own if interested.
>
>Avril Bourquin
>PO Box 366
>Invermere, BC
>Canada
>V0A 1K0
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>Email: [log in to unmask]
>URL: http://www.manandmollusc.net
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><P>There are fears in PNG that a new bank for traditional shell money could
>undermine cultural traditions.<BR><BR>The East New Britain provincial
>government
>has plans to have shell money function as a parallel system to the country's
>official currency, the kina.<BR><BR>But as <A class=pacificlinks
>href="http://abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/">Pacific Beat’s</A> Sonya De Masi reports,
>there are some concerns about the implications for an important part of the
>region's heritage.</P>
><P>The Tolai people have traditionally limited the use of shell money or
>‘tabu’,
>to the fulfillment of traditional obligations and some
>transactions.<BR><BR>They
>include payment of bride price and at funerals, some land transactions and
>as a
>medium of exchange at village markets.<BR><BR>The provincial government is
>eager
>to encourage people to use shell money more often, rather than accumulating
>large reserves in their homes....</P>
><P><FONT face=Arial>____________</FONT></P>
><P><FONT face=Arial>The article goes on but that you can read on your own if
>interested.</FONT></P>
><P><FONT face=Arial>Avril Bourquin<BR>PO Box 366<BR>Invermere,
>BC<BR>Canada<BR>V0A 1K0</FONT></P>
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