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Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699-1899

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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699-1899

Physical Qualities Brass, 3/8 x 1 3/16 x 2 3/16 in. (1 x 3 x 5.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1988.1241
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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, p.21.
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968.
Plass, Margaret Webster, "The Goldweights of the Ashanti," London: Lund Humphries, 1967, ill. 127-128.

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