Gold weights, spoon

Museum number:
5-10484
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4036
Description:
Spoon; sheet brass, tapered handle, curved edges, incised border circles, image of a bird and other abstract designs, 1 g; 13.5 cm; w. 3 cm. Used to measure out quantities of gold dust in the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.
Donor:
Franklin H. Williams
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
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, spoon, accession number 5-10484, described as Spoon; sheet brass, tapered handle, curved edges, incised border circles, image of a bird and other abstract designs, 1 g; 13.5 cm; w. 3 cm. Used to measure out quantities of gold dust in the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Gold weights, spoon, accession number 5-10484, described as Spoon; sheet brass, tapered handle, curved edges, incised border circles, image of a bird and other abstract designs, 1 g; 13.5 cm; w. 3 cm. Used to measure out quantities of gold dust in the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, spoon, accession number 5-10484, described as Spoon; sheet brass, tapered handle, curved edges, incised border circles, image of a bird and other abstract designs, 1 g; 13.5 cm; w. 3 cm. Used to measure out quantities of gold dust in the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.

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