A89 Bronze Manilla Slave Money Bracelet - used in West Africa 1500's to 1800's

Description

55 X 65 mm
73.6 grams
The name
manilla
is said to derive from the
Spanish
[1]
for a 'bracelet'
manilla
, the
Portuguese
for 'hand-ring'
manilha
,
[3]
or after the
Latin
manus
(hand) or from
monilia
, plural of
'monile
(necklace).
[4]
They are usually
horseshoe-shaped
, with terminations that face each other and are roughly
lozenge
-shaped. The earliest use of manillas was in West Africa. As a means of exchange they originated in
Calabar
. Calabar was the chief city of the ancient southeast Nigerian coastal kingdom of that name. It was here in 1505 that a slave could be bought for 8–10 manillas, and an elephant’s tooth for one copper manila.
[5]
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