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: Ea11659

: World Cultures

: Weight

: A brass weight for weighing gold. 2 projeting twisted "feelers" at front of flat head with a slit mouth one side of head feeler and the top of the head has a pattern of scales with a thickened curved body with 5 fins.

: Ghana, West Africa, Africa

: Asante

: Ghana, West Africa, Africa

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: Ghana, West Africa, Africa

: [Book] Plass, Margaret W. 1967. African Miniatures: Goldweights of the Ashanti.