Four goldweights ·  Ghana · ID: 3032223

Description

brass with patina, two in form of animals (et. al. catfish), two in shape of human figures, the latter ones on acrylic bases;
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 Four goldweights with the object ID 3032223 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 174.

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