This curated collection of eighteenth to nineteenth-century Akan gold weights provides a material archive of Akan culture, representing, in miniature form, figures, weapons, ceremonial objects, geometric shapes and animals.
Included in this collection are three eighteenth-century geometric gold weights, five animal gold weights, one late nineteenth-century figurative gold weight, one nineteenth-century gold weight depicting a shield and one nineteenth-century gold weight depicting a ceremonial wand.
Estimated Period: 18th - 19th Century
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