copper was in great demand. People used it almost exclusively for deco-
rative purposes. "Copper adorned the body from head to foot and laterally
to the tips of the fingers: hair ornaments, earrings, collars and necklaces,
pendants,
girdles and cache-sexes, bracelets, anklets, bells, amulets,
crowns. Copper ornamentation is, or has been, quasi-universal in African
societies."38
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