This bronze gold weight, depicting a two-headed crocodile eating a fish, was used to weigh gold dust. Cast by Akan goldsmiths, small gold weights (mrammou) such as this measured gold, the currency of the Akan and potent symbol of kra (life-force), between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
W: 3cm
Estimated Period: Late 19th Century
Ex Private Collection, UK
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