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Gold-weight

Akan

Artwork Details

Gold-weight
20th century
Akan
brass
x x 1/16 in. (1.4 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm); ; ;
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.397

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Description

Subject Matter:

Gold-weight with a geometric pattern. It may be a variant of Akoma ntoaso, a symbol of joined hats that represents agreement, used as a design on stamped cloth called adinkra (cf. Niangoran-Bouah, The Akan World of Gold Weights, Vol.1, 1984, p.208).  

Physical Description:

Gold-weight in the shape of a flat, square base with a central diagonal line. At each corner there are two lines set at a right angle. 

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