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Author(s): G. A. Wainwright
Reviewed work(s):
Trade Routes, Trade and Currency in East Africa. by A. H. Quiggin
Source: Man, Vol. 50 (Aug., 1950), p. 111
Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2794308
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AUGUST, 1950
Man
Nos.
175-I79
Both expert and general reader will find the dictionary an instructive and entertaining addition to their works of reference, full of
un-expected information. I was gratified to find, for instance, under
'CIAP,' an up-to-date account of the International Commission on
Folk Arts and Folklore, and under 'abracadabra,' ' birch,' ' eyebrows
neeting' and 'fairy rings' much unfamiliar wisdom.
ETHEL JOHN LINDGREN
J76
77
AFRICA
Slaves, salt, cotton cloth, iron, copper, beads and cowries were the
chief articles of trade. The 'Katanga crosses' passed from the Cape to
Cairo, from Mombasa to Boma. Abyssinian salt blocks were
acceptable all across Africa in the sixteenth century. Cast pieces of
pewter made a surprising currency on the Zambesi in the seventeenth century. Silent trade has existed into the present century.
G. A. WAINWRIGHT
178
classic four-volume
work
Centres de
I935: cf.MAN, I936, 45 and I938, IIS and uI6) is now not only very
expensive but almost unobtainable. For the serious student of
African primitive art it is an indispensable item of his reference
library: the first comprehensive study of Negro sculpture.
Ashanti Weights is a reprint of the essay on the Ashanti in Centres
de style, translated into Danish and English, and comprises a brief
discussion of these Gold Coast people, their history and art, with
particular emphasis on the casting technique, the meaning and
symbolism of these small masterpieces of cireperdue casting in brass,
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