Mukuba Wa Matwi, Katanga
copper
22" long (rear), $650
20.5" long (front), $450
from the Alan Helms collection, Boston, MA
ex private NYC collection

"Also called the copper bar with ears and was in the form of a capital "I". Produced by the Sanga. They range up
to four feet long. A bar three feet long was the price of a female slave in the 1800's."

From "An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money" by Charles J. Opitz.
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