Gold weight
The Asante used these copper alloy weights, or mbrammuo, as a standard in weighing out gold and gold dust. While the weights of the objects were standardised, their shape could be simple or complex. This weight was cast in a complex, geometric pattern.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 67/1996/2
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Currency
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- copper alloy (cast)
- Common Name
- gold weight
- Simple Name
- weight
- Production County
- South Ghana
- Production Country
- Ghana
- Production Year Low
- 1400
- Production Year High
- 1900