Manx shearwater skull (Puffinus puffinus) These were valuable items for These were valuable items for the Bene Bene people as the white cowries were a valuable currency which had been traded from the coast via the barter system between a number of tribal groups before finally arriving at the Highlands The bones have all been wired together and this foot would have come from a complete articulated skeleton as the talus has been cut which would have been part of the articulation of the ankle 000km to the waters off Southern Brazil and Argentina It has been well cleaned and prepared and is intact with the quadrate bones but is missing the pterygoid