Six manillas (primitive money) ·  Burkina Faso · ID: 3036451

Description

brass, with patina, a) armring with thorn-like projections, d: 5,5 cm; b) arm cuff with stylized crocodile, h: 13 cm/d: 8,4 cm, fissures in the cast; c) arm cuff with concentrical grooves, h: 9 cm/d: 7 cm; d) oval ring, d: 11 cm; e) and f) heavy rings with sharp middle ridge, incised ornaments, predominant motive: concentrical spiral ornaments at the rims, d: 6,5 cm, possibly Gabon

Comparing literature

Ballarini, Roberto, The perfect form, Milan 2009, p. 222, ill. 417 (a/b) Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 313 (c); ill. 295 (d)