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Gold-weight

Akan

Artwork Details

Gold-weight
1900-1985
Akan
brass
5/8 x 9/16 x ½ in. (1.6 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm); ; ;
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.393

Description

Subject Matter:

Gold-weight in a geometric shape, this one in particular called a cruciform. Although they were produced from the sixteenth century on, they are not a common gold-weight form (cf. Sheales, African Goldweights; British Museum object number Af1922,1027.271). 

Physical Description:

Gold-weight in the shape of a square with four raised notches running along each side. 

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