Four goldweights: scorpion, magician and two mudfish · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036271
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)Description
brass, various patina, scorpion, l: 7 cm, combined proverb: “the pain from a scorpion sting takes as long to subside as embers to cool down”; magician offering a cock to the “nkabere” fetish, h: 4,5 cm; two mudfish, l: 3 cm each, either formed naturalistic or ornamental, little missing part in the cast of one of them, proverb: “Whatever valuable the catfish swallows it does so for its master (the crocodile).”
Comparing literature
Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 562, 599