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Akan and Asante

Lidded Vessel (Forowa)

1867

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Lidded Vessel (Forowa)

1867

Physical Qualities Brass, 3 1/8 × 3 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (7.9 × 9 × 9.5 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Allen A. Davis
Object Number 2017.86
Allen A. Davis, Santa Fe, NM by purchase, 2005; Taylor Dale, TAD Tribal Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Private Collector, Paris, France, 2005; Ernst Winiski, Zurich, Switzerland.
Herbert Cole, The Arts of Ghana by Herbert Cole, p. 66, fig, 133.

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