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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.
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