Gold weights
- Museum number:
- 5-10617
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050010617
- Accession number:
- Acc.4036
- Description:
- Goldweight, brass, lost cast wax; square with curved side, a row of lines and a criss-cross pattern on top, 11.77 gm. weight called asia. 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)
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