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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699

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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699

Physical Qualities Brass, 3.9 H x 2.0 W cm.
Credit Line Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1988.1131
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p,125, ill.

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