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Gold-weight

Akan

Artwork Details

Gold-weight
1900-1985
Akan
brass
1 3/16 x x 1 1/8 in. (3.1 x 0.7 x 3.0 cm); ;
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.493

Description

Subject Matter:

Geometric gold-weight in the shape of a triangle with three cylindrical-section pedestal feet. 

Physical Description:

Gold-weight in the shape of a triangular base with rounded sides and smaller triangles at each point, attached to three cylindrical-section pedestal feet. The center of the triangle is a different color and has small markings.  

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