These teeth are used as currency. these ornaments are worn as bracelets and pectorals.

They have great symbolic and sacred value.

The pig is central to the traditional social system of Vanuatu.

Raised with the aim of obtaining this rare tooth which one exchanges for a transfer of rank or else to be initiated into secrets or even to marry, to pay a debt... The rank system makes it possible to increase the power of the world of living and influencing in that of the dead. The person is authorized to wear the elements of adornment corresponding to his rank.

The curved Verrat's tooth is one of the emblems of Vanuatu.

It appears on its national flag