manila

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The one below depicts manillas - the brass bracelets introduced as a form of currency by Portuguese traders and used from the 16th to the 19th Centuries.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

"He would take these manillas to Igun-Eronmwon, a village in Benin that manufactured all these artefacts. They would then make them into the bronzes and other fanciful things."

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2022

Critics of the case, like Mr Edebiri, argue that not all manillas used in Benin were from the slave trade.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2022

Sixteenth-century bronze casting from Benin, showing natives holding manillas, 69 Plate VI, gold ring-money, 70 65.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George

They get paid in manillas, which they can, when they wish, get changed again into merchandise either at the factory or on the trading ship.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta