Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699
Scroll
Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699
Physical Qualities
Brass, 1 × 1 3/16 × 1/2 in. (2.6 × 3 × 1.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.708
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.