Gold weights

Museum number:
5-10609
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4036
Description:
Goldweight; brass, lost wax cast, triangular pyramidal with a jagged triangular base, 12.25 gm. weight called asia/dwoa. The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.
Donor:
Franklin H. Williams
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Ghana; Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Accession date:
June 1985
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10609, described as Goldweight; brass, lost wax cast, triangular pyramidal with a jagged triangular base, 12.25 gm. weight called asia/dwoa. The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10609, described as Goldweight; brass, lost wax cast, triangular pyramidal with a jagged triangular base, 12.25 gm. weight called asia/dwoa. The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, accession number 5-10609, described as Goldweight; brass, lost wax cast, triangular pyramidal with a jagged triangular base, 12.25 gm. weight called asia/dwoa. The everyday businessman's weight were for the amounts of gold dust used for money in much of West Africa from the 1400's through the 1800's.

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