Gold weights
- Museum number:
- 5-10579
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050010579
- Accession number:
- Acc.4036
- Description:
- 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.
- 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:
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