Zemanek-Münster

Five goldweights: anthropomorphic figures

Ghana, Akan
sold EUR 150
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)
Size
H: 3,5 cm - 7 cm
H: 1.4 inch - 2.8 inch

Description

brass, with patina, three of them armed (spear, rifle, dagger); a nursing woman; a standing man killing another with a stone


Comparing literature

Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 854, 848, 878

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