Gold dust box
- Museum number:
- 5-16372a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516372a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 5-16372 and B-1306a,b (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Ashanti Gold Dust Box. 1 3/8” x 1.0”. Purchased, 1971, $21.a = baseb = top Purchased from Ernest Buchholz
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Ghana, Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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