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Description: | A ring of metal worn on the arm or wrist in certain African societies and used as a medium of exchange. They were also widely used as currency and a medium of exchange. Huge quantities were imported into western Africa from Europe to finance the transatlantic slave trade.
Collected by Capt Bryan Smith 23 Sept 1979 from Otamiri River, 3 miles upstream from the bridge at Chococho village, Rivers State, Nigeria.
caption: Manilla | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Other non-Michael Graham-Stewart collection manilla | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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