Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Exchange Media (hierarchy name)
5. exchange media (objects)
6. money (objects)
7. [money by form]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by acoustical characteristics
7. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied
12. bells and sets of bells
13. bells

Anotations

Scope note:

Money in the form of bells, either functional bells or items in the shape of bells. Bells have been used as money in many different cultures, such as the Maya of Central America, in Nigeria, and elsewhere in Africa.