Bracelets Were Used As A Form Of Currency, As Dowry Payment And Worn As A.
It is a manilla or money bracelet from western africa. The piece is 12,0 width x 15,0 high (4.72″ x 5.90″). 1,500 beaded and pearl bracelets.
African Copper Bracelets Have Become A Sort After Fashion Accessory Not Only For The Ethnic Look But Also For The Health Properties Of Copper Bracelets.
Find silver cuffs, golden id wrists and armbands, decorated with ankara prints, cowries, bones or masai beads. Manilla bracelets were used as currency from the 1500s until around the 1940s. Bracelets were used as a form of currency, as dowry payment and worn as a symbol of prestige and status.
Bronze Grams 623,8 (22.0 Oz.).
Everything from seashells to salt functioned as a medium of exchange in africa, but the use of metal was particularly widespread. Metals were important in transactions to complete social. $5.00 may 10, 2020 sun city, az, us request more information additional details.
12,0 High X Cm 11,5 Width (4.72″ X 4.53″).
British or portugal and traded in: West african manilla currency slave bracelets 1600's to 1800's free shipping. Made of copper, brass, and iron, the portuguese, british and french modeled these metal currency bracelets.
Bronze Grams 1.094,1 (38.59 Oz.).
A fine and very varied selection of 11 currency cobber, bronze and brass currency (money) bracelets of larger sizes, west to north africa, ca. The zulu people who wear these copper. 5,000 various bracelets in all fabrics.