Goldweight: sword with scabbard

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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.

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Comparing literature

Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 110 f.

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Publications

Büse, J.E., Akan-Goldgewichte: Eine Kultur in Bronze, in: Sammler-Journal 2 (1979), p. 80

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