Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
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Akan
Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)
Akan, 1699-1899
Physical Qualities
Brass, 9/16 x 13/16 x 1 3/4 in. (1.4 x 2 x 4.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1988.1234
Mallet
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971
African Reinstallation
Menzel, Brigitte, "Goldgewichte aus Ghana," Berlin: (Staatliche Museen) Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1968, nos 1112, 1118.
Plass, Margaret Webster, "African Miniatures:The Goldweights of the Ashanti," London: Lund Humphries, 1967, nos 123-125.
Plass, Margaret Webster, "African Miniatures:The Goldweights of the Ashanti," London: Lund Humphries, 1967, nos 123-125.
