Akan
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 9/16 x 11/16 in. (0.9 x 1.4 x 1.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.1218
Chest
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
Garrard, Timothy, "Akan Weights and the Gold Trade," London: Longman, 1980, no 54.
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968, nos 998-999.
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968, nos 998-999.
