Manilla
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1984 to 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
notes: label: Notes
content: Enormous brass C-shaped bracelet, with large faceted ends. Line decoration on the faceted.
label: Notes
content: The donor, Dr. Kaplan, says that these manillas (referring to all of the manillas in this accession, E434824 - 434849) were collected while she was carrying out research on Benin bronze casting in Benin City, Nigeria between 1984 and 1999. She purchased them from the master caster, Osaize Omodamwen, with whom she was working. The “manillas” were sold by traders from the “north” of Nigeria as scrap metal to the casters. A few of them are true “manilla” which were metal bracelets cast in Liverpool and were still being used as currency in Nigeria up into the 1960s. Others are bracelets and anklets, once worn by either men or women as ritual or prestige items and which may have also functioned as currency.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2052779
label: USNM Number
content: E434839-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 126 cm