MAORI POWDER HORN -MUSKET WAR ERA

[David]

Originally Posted by kronckew

i read you can buy a (dressed) pig for about $600 (weight dependent)
so 25 pigs x 600 =$15000 dollars. (live ones are a bit cheaper)

quite expensive for a musket. they were being ripped off!

even the earlier 8 pigs is dear. ($4800)

rampant inflation. i blame the EU of course.

a carton of potatoes can go for about $24 so 160 x $24 =$3840, so roughly equivalent. initially, depending on basket size.

you could probably by the exact same musket, made yesterday in the khyber pass area for a lot less in goats, now that the musket market has dropped out of sight with the popularity of ak47's.

please do not try to buy muskets in the khyber pass area with pigs, it is not a legal currency there. offering them would not turn out well.

Wayne, i'm not sure that you are posting this on the right thread...

[rickystl]

Hi Bandook.
That is a really nice, and most unusual powder horn. And coming from your area and time period probably makes it quite rare. Super interesting look. What is the length and diameter?
Rick

[BANDOOK]

Thanks Rick,i shall come back to u,bought it 8-9 years back at auction,high time I know more about it,thanks for your comments

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by David

Wayne, i'm not sure that you are posting this on the right thread...

the small photo next to the horn refers to the price of a musket to the maori at various time frames, in pigs ansd th equivalent in baskets of potatoes, so i was putting them into a modern context and reference to it's modern equivalent. the op evidently thought that was relevant and included it.

a musket and it's accoutrements, including ammnunition and devices used to carry it, powder, shot, spare flints, and later percussion caps were also expensive items that must be traded for, embellished, decorated, captured, retraded, etc.