The name
manilla is said to derive from the
Spanish[1] for a 'bracelet'
manilla, the
Portuguese for 'hand-ring'
manilha,
[3] or after the
Latin manus (hand) or from
monilia, plural of
'monile (necklace).
[4] They are usually
horseshoe-shaped, with terminations that face each other and are roughly
lozenge-shaped. The earliest use of manillas was in West Africa. As a means of exchange they originated in
Calabar.
Calabar was the chief city of the ancient southeast Nigerian coastal
kingdom of that name. It was here in 1505 that a slave could be bought
for 8–10 manillas, and an elephant’s tooth for one copper manila.
[5]
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