Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
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Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
Physical Qualities
Brass, 11/16 in. (1.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.855
Medium geometric, late period
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
See T.F. Garrard, 1980, 'Akan Weights and the Gold Trade,' London, pp. 280-286.