Cloth currency (strips)
Liberia
Cotton, dye
L. (unrolled) 3,535 cm (1,391 3/4 in.)
National Museum of African Art,
gift of the late Ambassador and Mrs. Benjamin Hill Brown Jr., 76-3-2
Among the peoples of Liberia and Sierra Leone, rolls of woven cotton strips were used as bride price or exchanged for metal implements and salt.