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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10593, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; rectangular pyramid, 14.86 gm. weight called onansia/onamfi. 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 5-10551, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; square pyramidal shaped w/ a protuberance on top, 2.73 gm. weight called bodommofa/soa. 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 5-10579, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat, warped, square with branch-like designs, on top, 2.99 gm. weight called soa. 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 5-10540, described as Goldweight, lost wax cast, brass; flat square w/ two rectangular structures on top, 2.64 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 5-10505, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; branch with leaves, 3.39 gm. weight called domma, fiaso.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10604, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; smooth edged, square shaped with a smaller square with two notches, on top, 12.95 gm. weight called dwoa. 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 5-10603, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; smooth edged trapezoid shape with a checkered rectangular segment of top, 13.02 gm. weight called dwoa. 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. Shows evidence of trimming to make up weight

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10512, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; hammer, rectangular head, probably a metal smiths hammer, 6.06 gm. weight called nsano.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10557, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat, rectangular w/ a double line border on three sides, on top, 3.85 gm. weight called agyiratwe. 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 5-10580, described as Gold weight, brass, lost wax cast; square pyramidal with two triangular indentations, on top, 3.74 gm. weight called borofo. 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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