Weight
Although often identified with the Asante, the most numerous and best known of the Akan peoples, weights for measuring gold dust were made and used throughout Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. For more than five centuries, from about 1400 to 1900, Akan smiths cast weights of immense di...
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sculpture
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Gift of Philip L. Ravenhill in memory of Sylvia H. Williams
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CC0
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8
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import
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96-42-1.11
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Medium
Copper alloy, copper
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