Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-16556
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016556
- Alternate number:
- B-804 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Gold weight; pressure drum.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Drums (membranophones) and Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 2.5 centimeters, width 1.6 centimeters, and length 1.3 centimeters
- Images:
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