Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa by Kazuo Kobayashi

Author:Kazuo Kobayashi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030186753
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

105.The work by David Ames, on nineteenth-century Gambian Wolof societies, supports the complementarity between cloth currency and others. Here, I quote an interesting paragraph on this point from his work:

Some commodities, like garden vegetables, were worth so little than they could not be paid for in cloth. Grain in small amounts, measured out in gourds, was the ‘petty cash’ used in such payments. At the same time, a very expensive commodity like a fine horse, worth two slaves, was rarely bought with cloth-money alone by people, whole granaries (worth 15 xopa), livestock, or other objects of value entered the exchange, often in conjunction with cloth. Some exchanges, then, especially the ‘expensive’ ones, were primarily or wholly barter, but even here most of the articles exchanged were evaluated in terms of cloth-money. (Emphasis in original)

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