Gold weight
The Asante used weights such as this to measure out specific amounts of gold for centuries. They were often decorated with simple geometric patterns like this one. These gold weights (mbrammuo) were made in Ghana from the 1400s, until being banned by the colonial administration in the late 1800s.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/119
- 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