Four goldweights: scorpion, magician and two mudfish ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036271

---

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).”

---

Littérature comparée

Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 562, 599

---

Publications

Büse, J.E., Akan-Goldgewichte: Eine Kultur in Bronze, in: Sammler-Journal 2 (1979), p. 80, 83

---