Gold weight
Weights such as this were used by the Asante to measure out specific amounts of gold or gold dust. This weight appears to have been cast in the shape of a stool, an important item in the Asante belief system.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/94
- 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
