Gold weight
Asante merchants used these copper alloy weights, or mbrammuo, as a standard for weighing gold and gold dust when conducting trade. While the weights of the objects were standardised, their shape varied, and could be simple or complex. Weights were often made to resemble everyday objects.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/95
- 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
