Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-14116
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050014116
- Alternate number:
- B-651 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3681
- Description:
- gold weight. lion killing hunter; self base.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Ghana, Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- ca. 1955
- Materials:
- Bronze (metal)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Context of use:
- Proverb and ransom weight, medium size goldweight. (500, Kumasi, 19). Cf. 666 large. King's wt. for tribute from enemy (and ransom from condemned man?) 199.8 gm. 2.75 pereguan (195.47 gm.) + 4.33 2.2 % i.e. 2 pereguan and 1 asoasa.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 8.2 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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