A long braided band of kaurishells, used as currency. The band is made of light brown thread of tree bark fibre and has a strip of braided in dark brown fibre in the middle, with lines of yellow (orchid?) fibre on both sides. Cowry shells are attached to the band at regular intervals. On both ends of the band as well as in the middle a piece of cuscus fur is fixed. Objects such as these usually remain in family possession. Men used such a band with shells for payment or donations. Sometimes the whole object was used to buy a pig or a woman, sometimes a few shells were taken off to buy a small item. The object is probably made by a man. Strings of shell money are common in the Central Mountainrange inlands (Jayawijaya) and Bird's Head.