Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1599-1899
Scroll
Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1599-1899
Physical Qualities
Brass, 3 1/16 x 1 1/16 x 1 in. (7.8 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1954.145.31x
Male figure
(of 31 objects accessioned together, not all exhibited together).
1. The Baltimore Museum of Art, "THE WURTZBURGER COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART," Jan. 12 - Feb. 14, 1954, cat. 31, illus. p. 20-21.
2. School of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., "WURTZBURGER COLLECTION," June 21 - August 31, 1954, (10 selected).
3. The Memorial Gallery, Rochester, NY, "AFRICAN SCULPTURE," Oct. 8 - Nov. 7, 1954.
"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.
1. The Baltimore Museum of Art, "THE WURTZBURGER COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART," Jan. 12 - Feb. 14, 1954, cat. 31, illus. p. 20-21.
2. School of Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., "WURTZBURGER COLLECTION," June 21 - August 31, 1954, (10 selected).
3. The Memorial Gallery, Rochester, NY, "AFRICAN SCULPTURE," Oct. 8 - Nov. 7, 1954.
"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. 133, plate 38, illus.
