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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10535, described as Goldweight, copper lost wax cast; flat, square, coiled, 3.30 gm. weight called domma, fiaso. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10578, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat, square with a checkered design of lines with a diagonal across, on top, 2.49 gm. weight called bodommofa. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10572, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; rectangular with seventeen circles indented in three columns on top, 7.43 gm. weight called namfisuru. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10616, described as Goldweight; brass, Lost cast wax, square/circular shape with triangular designs on top, 17.38 gm. weight called osoa. The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10586, described as Goldweight, lost wax cast; rectangular with a two circled and two lined design on top, 4.51 gm. weight called nsoansa. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10618, described as Goldweight; brass, lost wax cast, elongated, rectangular with seven rings on top, 15.61 gm. weight called onansoa, tekimansua.The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10591, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; design of triangles and triangular notches, 69.61 gm. weight, large unit called pereguan. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10507, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; triangular object with a bar dividing the middle, 7.99 gm. weight called bremansuru.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10564, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; flat square with two rows of vertical short line segments and three long horizontal lines, on one side, 5.49 gm. weight called nnomanu. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10537, described as Goldweight, base, lost wax cast; square w/ a structure of three parallel lines at their centers to a perpendicular line, on top, a 5.96 gm weight called nsano.The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.

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