Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
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Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
Physical Qualities
Brass, 3/4 x 3/4 x 1 11/16 in. (1.9 x 1.9 x 4.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.1257
Natural-cast seeds or pods
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
De Kolb, Eric, "Ashanti Goldweights," New York: Gallery d'Hautbarr, 1968, nos 104, 106-107, 117, 121, 225, 397.
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968, nos 515-552.
Plass, Margaret Webster, "African Miniatures:The Goldweights of the Ashanti," London: Lund Humphries, 1967, nos 157, 159, 161.
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968, nos 515-552.
Plass, Margaret Webster, "African Miniatures:The Goldweights of the Ashanti," London: Lund Humphries, 1967, nos 157, 159, 161.
