Gold weight
- Museum number:
- 5-14930
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050014930
- Alternate number:
- B-599 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4276
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- gold weight. cast brass. represents Ashanti seive (long-handled strainer); wt. 8.6 g.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Ghana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Ghana, Musa Silla; Ashanti
- Culture or time period:
- Ashanti
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- before 1966
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gold-weights
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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