Accession number: Acc.4088 / Function: 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10878, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass figures, three drummers on a flat base. (one missing) one drummer with drum under left arm; second drummer resting drum on ground; middle drummer missing. tarnishedon flat base. 199.4 grams.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10886, described as gold weight; man with a staff, may be Baule not Ashanti, stacked rings around waist and neck and on staff, large ears, nose and mouth, bald head, crooked knees. 69.5 g.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10887, described as gold weight; scorpion, flat, light colored, raised design on back, outstretched pincers, cross design on back, four brass loops on each side, coiled eyes. 26.3 grams.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10897, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass crocodile biting a mudfish; flat, raised circular shapes on back, four legs, broken tail. small. 33.6 grams

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10882, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass man; prisoner - with knife in mouth and hands tied. 18.5 grams

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10871, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass man with staff, 3 pal oil. tiny. Cf. 626

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10881, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass man, prisoner (?), with knife in mouth and hands tied. 18.6 grams

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10895, described as gold weight. Ashanti man playing pressure drum, tarnished brass, 50.3g.

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10898, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass crossed crocodiles, each with fishes. shared body with diagonal cross-hatching and perpendicular raised ridges, raised heads, curved tails. Cf. 660, 691-694, 702, 703. 34.9 grams

Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10872, described as Ashanti gold weight; gold colored crocodile, raised up on front legs, much detail. raised, circular and incised markings on back, curved notched tail, large eyes, teeth on lowere jaw. upper jaw broken.