Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-16618
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016618
- Alternate number:
- B-590 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- fish, round.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa; Ghana; Ashanti; Musa Silla
- 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
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 3.9 centimeters, length 0.5 centimeters, and height 5.9 centimeters
- Images:
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