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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699-1899

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Akan

Gold-Dust Weight (Abrammuo)

Akan, 1699-1899

Physical Qualities Brass, 3/16 x 7/16 x 1 in. (0.5 x 1.1 x 2.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1988.1194
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Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Helen McElhiney (1920-2014) by purchase in Ghana 1968-1971

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