Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21 Feb 2018
Nineteen Akan goldweights Ghana brass
Nineteen Akan goldweights
Ghana
brass, including two swords, a tortoise, a sankofa bird, a bird and snake group, a shield, a stool and geometric types and a rectangular gold dust box and cover, 19th century. (21)
Provenance
Ex. coll. Timothy Garrard (1943 -2007) State attorney in Ghana, scholar and leading expert on Akan goldweights.