Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Nineteen Akan goldweights

Ghana

brass, including six cast from nature; a locust, 4.4cm long, a bird claw, two scorpion or crab claws, a beetle and a peanut; the others including a stool, a flint lock rifle, a cartridge belt with daggers, three axes, two war horns; one with four human mandibles, a pair of drums, a portrait mask, a harp, a three pod fruit, three knotted rope group and a bell with a bead clapper. (20)