ABSTRACT
There are over one hundred different examples of primitive money from Africa in the Cambridge Collection. There are rather more from Oceania. From the far larger area of Asia, far more densely populated, containing some of the oldest civilizations in the world, yet with large areas scarcely civilized at all, some 30 types have been collected from the mainland namely, Assam, Burma, Siam, China and Indo-China and about the same number from the Malay region, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java and successive islands. Japan is doubtful; and India is almost unrepresented. Throughout the greater part of the immense region which in-eludes Europe to the West and stretches to Further India in the East, cattle were the chief form of wealth, and, as is seen in Africa, where cattle form the standard of value, varieties of primitive money are undeveloped.
