Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-14919
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050014919
- Alternate number:
- B577 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4276
- Description:
- goldweight, cast brass; two men (Amoaku and Adu) shaking hands; self base; wt. 22.8 g., ht. 4.4 cm.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Ghana, Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- January 1973
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Context of use:
- Goldweight. Proverb: "You have ended up like Amoaku and Adu" (having wasted your life and substance). Purchased in Berkeley from a "runner".
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 4.4 centimeters and weight 22.8 grams
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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