Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-11738
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050011738
- Alternate number:
- [TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2924
- Description:
- gold weight. square cast brass with “X” inside box on one face. an in-between weight - between “osoa” and “asoanu”. 33.84 grams
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- Arvin J. Klein and Mrs. Arvin J. Klein
- Collection date:
- before 1973
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- March 16, 1973
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Legacy documentation:
-