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Gold-weight

Akan

Artwork Details

Gold-weight
20th century
Akan
brass
1 5/8 in x 7/16 in x 3/8 in (4.2 cm x 1.1 cm x 1 cm)
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.466

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Description

Subject Matter:

Gold-weight in the shape of possibly a seed pod. In shape it resembles other gold-weights directly cast from nature (cf. Phillips, African Goldweights, 2010, p. 40; Garrard, Akan Weights and the Gold Trade, 1980, p. 291).

Physical Description:

Gold-weight in the shape of four overlapping squares with rounded edges, attached to a short, pointed stem. 

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