Gold weight
Merchants used these copper alloy weights as a standard for weighing gold dust when trading. This weight, made before 1900, is in the form of an antelope whose extended horns refer to the Asante proverb ‘If I had known my horns were to grow so long I might not have started.’ A visual pun that calls for thinking before acting and reflects the benefit of hindsight.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/3
- 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