Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699
Scroll
Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699
Physical Qualities
Brass, 3.5 x 6.5 x 3.7 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.1185
Drum
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.
Dagan, Esther A., ed., "Drums: the heartbeat of Africa," Montreal (Quebec) Canada: Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, c1993, no 71.
