Gold weights, man and animal

Museum number:
5-10488
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4036
Description:
Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.
Donor:
Franklin H. Williams
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
June 1985
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Gold weights, man and animal, accession number 5-10488, described as Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Gold weights, man and animal, accession number 5-10488, described as Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Gold weights, man and animal, accession number 5-10488, described as Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, man and animal, accession number 5-10488, described as Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.

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