Post Date: 24 May 2018
African Currency – TETELA / NKUTSHU – DR Congo
The piece is cm. 23,8 high (9.37″). Grams 320,0 (11.29 oz.)
Copper bar with a bulge in the middle, circular section, extremities with punched designs. Produced by the Nkutshu living on the course of the river Lokenic.
For a similar example see:
- “The Perfect Form”, by Roberto Ballarini, page 294.
- “African Currency”, by Adolfo Bartolomucci, page 114.