Container for gold dust ·  Ghana · ID: 3033293

Description

brass, dark patina, cylindrical form, decorated with punched ornaments, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion;
until the beginning of the last century gold dust was the most common currency of the country. At every buying or disposal the gold dust had to be weighted, for this purpose natural weights like seeds, shells or bones were used, as well as metal weights, nowadays called “gold weights”.

The object Container for gold dust with the object ID 3033293 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 125 achieved a sales price of EUR 80.

Here you will find more objects and interesting facts about African art.