Object class: Scale components / Year collected: [Missing] / Function: 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, man and animal, accession number 5-10488, described as Lid; brass, lost wax cast, from gold dust box, rectangular, perimeter decorated with raised ridges. four sitting duck-like fowl in center, bottom wit ridge to fit inside box. 8 x 3.5 x 1 cm. Used in conjunction with the gold dust currency which flourished on the Ivory Coast from the 1400's through 1800's.