About the Artwork
Geometric Gold Weight
19th or 20th century
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African
Akan
Brass
Overall: 3/8 × 7/8 × 7/8 inches (1 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm)
Metalwork
African Art
Gift of Shirley B. Williams
1991.1082
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Shirley Williams
1992-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “The Akan Gold Weights Collection at the DIA.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 16 (fig. 1.3).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Akan, African, Geometric Gold Weight, 19th or 20th century, brass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Shirley B. Williams, 1991.1082.
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