In the island-township of Mulatupu, as in most parts of Kuna territory in Panama, coconuts are traded exclusively with Colombian ships in exchange for articles of first necessity and varied commodities. In turn, the process by which the coconut becomes commodity with exchange value in Dollars is intrinsically related with the multiple transformations that Kuna society faces since the last few decades: youth migration, shifts of kinship, disappearance of subsistence practices, etc. Coconuts are both, in a way, the witness and the catalyst of these changes.