The standing warrior holds a shield on the one hand and a weapon in the other. The shield is decorated with fine geometric markings.
Ex Private Collection UK
Estimated Period: 19th Century
(A similar example of gold weight depicting a warrior with a shield, dated to the eighteenth-century, is described in Tom Phillips' publication African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400-1900, on page 74)
Height: 6cm
Width: 3cm
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