Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 357
Nineteen Akan goldweights Ghana brass
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £420
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Description
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.