Zemanek-Münster

Three goldweights: miscellanea

Ghana, Akan
sold EUR 100
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)

Description

brass, with patina, monkey on a tree, h: 2,9 cm, proverb: “You cannot harm anybody by wishing him ill”; tiny trophy head “nitire”, h: 2 cm; leopard, l: 4 cm, proverb: “the rain wets the spots on the leopards skin, but does not wash them off.”


Comparing literature

Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, p. 203

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