Metal bracelet

Museum number:
5-7316
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050007316
Accession number:
Acc.2456
Description:
Manilla (money_; brass; c-shaped with pads on open ends; diameter 6 cm.
Donor:
Dave Radmore
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria
Materials:
Brass (alloy)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bracelets (jewelry) and Brass money
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
Formerly used as money in Southern Nigeria. To be used as traveling teaching exibit for Bay Area grammar and high schools
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Metal bracelet, accession number 5-7316, described as Manilla (money_; brass; c-shaped with pads on open ends; diameter 6 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Metal bracelet, accession number 5-7316, described as Manilla (money_; brass; c-shaped with pads on open ends; diameter 6 cm.

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