Lobi Bronze Bracelet Currency

Two twisted-looking strands, each ticked with tiny diagonal cuts, curl up to ribbed ends.

This bracelet currency is Lobi, from Burkina Faso, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and metal objects of this kind were usually cast, then finished by hammering or filing. Closer in, a stacked, two-strand band with a smooth channel between the coils and diagonal hatching on each. The terminals are blunt and slightly flared with small side nubs. The surface is a pale golden-olive with soft wear. It is 2.25 inches wide, 0.25 deep and 1.75 high.

Wound up, notched, and happily decorated.