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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10865, described as Ashanti gold weight; figurine, face with left ear missing, square mouth, cross shaped nose, no eyes, vertical hair segments.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10862, described as Ashanti gold weight; figurine, man sacrificing chicken at shrine of nkabere. smooth, clean, shiny metal surface. tiny. Cf. 619.J = 3.5 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10864, described as Ashanti gold weight; figurine, man with staff in right hand. axe and firewood(?) held on head with left hand. smooth shiny surface.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10866, described as Ashanti gold weight; figurine, man hanging from a tree w/ rope around neck and hands held to face; darkly tarnished.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10610, described as Goldweight; brass, lost cast wax, cogwheel shaped with dotted circle design, 24.32 gm. weight called esiabo mienu "double asia". This is an early piece made in the period 1400-1700 A.D.*, and is of historical interest. 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-16011, described as Royal gold weight: Ashanti; brass; in the form of a forest spirit sitting astride crotch of a tree stump. square beard, two blunt horns on top of head, legs loop to the right with 4-5 toes on each. bascom paper label on bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10878, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass figures, three drummers on a flat base. (one missing) one drummer with drum under left arm; second drummer resting drum on ground; middle drummer missing. tarnishedon flat base. 199.4 grams.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10852, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass man playing a round drum, head slightly tilted to the left.
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10898, described as Ashanti gold weight. brass crossed crocodiles, each with fishes. shared body with diagonal cross-hatching and perpendicular raised ridges, raised heads, curved tails. Cf. 660, 691-694, 702, 703. 34.9 grams
Hearst Museum object titled Gold weight, accession number 5-10863, described as Ashanti gold weight; figurine, man with staff in right hand and carrying a key of gunpowder over head with left hand. shiny metal surface. tiny. H = 5 cm.

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