Gold weight
The Asante used these small weights, or mbrammuo, as a standard for weighing out specific amounts of gold and gold dust. While the weights of the objects were standardised, their shape could be simple or complex. This weight appears to resemble a fan, decorated with a spiral and and a looped edge.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/92
- 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
