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Title: | Native and Trade Currencies in Southern Nigeria during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
Author: | Jones, G.I. |
Year: | 1958 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 43-53 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | currencies Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1156573 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1958-028-01-000004 |
Abstract: | Study based on contemporary field work and historical data, of certain early currency systems of southern Nigeria, with special reference to the Rivers Province. Historical sources of the period up to the 18th century were Pacheco Pereira, Dapper, John and James Barbot; for the early 19th century mainly Captain Adams and Bold together with other sources. The ethnographical data of Talbot were supplemented by the author's own work during the period 1927 to 1946; during a period of field work in the Rivers Provinve and Old Calabar in 1956 a specific study was made od the traditional political and economic systems of the Oil Rivers Ports. Bibliography. |