Gold weights

Museum number:
5-10614
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4036
Description:
Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat circular with three notches on each pole, 10.05 gm. weight called piresuru. 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.
Donor:
Franklin H. Williams
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Ghana; Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Accession date:
June 1985
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10614, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat circular with three notches on each pole, 10.05 gm. weight called piresuru. 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 2 of 2 titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10614, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat circular with three notches on each pole, 10.05 gm. weight called piresuru. 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10614, described as Goldweight, brass, lost wax cast; flat circular with three notches on each pole, 10.05 gm. weight called piresuru. 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.

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