Money in Africa

Cowrie shells

Edited by Catherine Eagleton, Harcourt Fuller and John Perkins

British Museum Research Publication 171
ISBN 978 086159 171 8
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2009

Preliminaries, contents and introduction

Part I: papers by Laurence Garenne-Marot, Carlos F. Liberato and Karin Palaver

Part II: papers by Simon Heap, Jane I. Guyer, and Foluke Ogunleye

Part III: papers by Chibuike U. Uche, Harcourt Fuller, Adebayo A. Lawal and Ayodeji Olukoju

Image: Four cowrie shells given to the explorer Mungoi Park, by Mansong Diara, ruler of Bambara West Africa, in 1796.

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