1884.78.69

Collection type

Object

Description

Copper alloy manilla

Long description

Copper manilla. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/6/2005]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England

Cultural groups

Igbo

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Possibly before 1867

Date collected

By 1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Copper Metal, Process Cast

Dimensions

Diameter: max 57 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.78.69

Research and responses

AP had suggested (below) that this object might match that illustrated in Primitive Warfare 1 (Plate 1, figure 7). This is not impossible, but the primary documentation indicates that it is more probably object 1884.99.42. I have therefore removed the date of 'By 1867' from the 'When collected' field. [Dan Hicks 09/08/2013]

There is a Ibo manilla referred to on page 31 of 'Primitive Warfare' Plate 1 fig 7 'A manilla, or specimen of ring money of copper and iron, used as a medium of exchange in the Eboe country, West Africa. From Col. Lane Fox's collection - In 1836 a ship laden with a quantity of these Manillas, made in Birmingham, after the pattern used in Africa (the specimen here figured formed part of the cargo), was wrecked on the coast of the county of Cork. By this means their exact resemblance to the gold and bronze Penannular rings found in Ireland (fig 8), attracted the notice of Mr Sainthill of Cork by whom the subject was communicated to the Ulster Journal of Archaeology no 19 July 1857'. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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