Gold weight
The Asante used small weights, or mbrammuo, such as this one to measure out specific amounts of gold. The weights were often decorated with geometric patterns. They were made from the 1400s, until the time their production and use were then banned by the colonial administration in the late 1800s.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/117
- 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
