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Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1900-1999

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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1900-1999

Physical Qualities Brass, 7/16 x 3 x 9/16 in. (1.1 x 7.6 x 1.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1988.1155
State swords and sheaths (afena)
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971

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2000–2000

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