Tevau (red feather currency)

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Tevau (red feather currency)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a tevau, a coil of highly prized red feathers from the Santa Cruz Islands in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. In this region, tevau was a kind of currency often exchanged for services and goods such as canoes, root crops, turtles and pigs. Tevau were also gifted as part of marriage ceremonies. Materials and decoration Each tevau was made by skilled specialist craftspeople, who would catch honeyeater birds and collect only four of their very small red feathers. Tevau can con...

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Image

Date created

1900s

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1292637

Related subjects

feather / plant fibre / shell (animal material) / nylon / money / Santa Cruz Islands / Solomon Islands / Melanesian / Oceanic / Solomon Islander / Santa Cruz Islander

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