Goldweight: sword with scabbard · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036265
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)Size
L: 9 cm (sword)
L: 3.5 inch (sword)
Description
brass, bipartite/separate worked, two monkey skulls as emblematic device;
in the original weapons the monkey skulls would have been actual skulls. Sword decorations including large red shells or ape heads were referred to in one of the first accounts of the region in 1601.
Comparing literature
Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 110 f.