Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-16482
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016482
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- scepter or penis, on a stand
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Ghana, Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Weighing gold dust
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 5.1 centimeters and width 1.5 centimeters
- Images:
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