Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
Scroll
Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
Physical Qualities
Brass, 4.8 H cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.1049
Human figure
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
"Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, April 1-August 10, 2008; circulated to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, September 10-December 10, 2008, San Diego Museumof Art, January 1-March 17, 2009.
Thompson, Barbara, ed., "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Dartmouth and Seattle: The Hood Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2008, p. 126, plate 31, illus.
