kopo [Swahili]

In Swahili-speaking East Africa, 20ᵗʰ century, a unit of capacity used by traders in the marketplace, equal to the capacity of a small jar or cigarette tin.

cigarette tin

Photo by Alf van Beem, courtesy Wikimedia Commons

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