Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21 Feb 2018
Nine Akan goldweights Ghana brass
Nine Akan goldweights
Ghana
brass, including a stool, a coiled snake, five geometric types, a pierced type and a rectangular gold dust box with a cover applied with six birds, 19th century. (11)
Provenance
Ex. coll. Timothy Garrard (1943 -2007) State attorney in Ghana, scholar and leading expert on Akan goldweights.