Gold Weight

Akan group, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, African

20th century

  • Titles Gold Weight (Descriptive)
  • Medium brass
  • Dimensions Overall: 3/8 in. (1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ellen and Fred Elsas, 1986.773.1
  • Work Type weight
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Blackish-brown glossy vessel has round bottom and slopes inward toward mouth in rounded tiers. Body has incised bands, some filled with herringbone pattern, concentric arcs, and sections of parallel vertical lines.
Mask (deangle), Dan people, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, African, wood, fiber, teeth
Vertical grain container has flat bottom resting on short feet; top is rounded with short neck. Shoulder has appliqued parallel wavy lines with raised vertical bar.
Pair of twin figures, one male and one female, of carved wood, each with an elaborate coiffure bathed in blue pigments, with scarification on the face, wearing traditional ornaments, the female figure additionally with a necklace of red beads and a waistlet of blue beads.