Five Akan Figurative Goldweights

Description:

Five Akan Figurative Goldweights, a farmer figure, ht. 2 3/8; a gold miner, ht. 1 1/2; an armed guard with two men carrying a wooden box, ht. 2 1/4; a man firing two mounted cannons, 7/8 x 1 1/4; and an herbalist scraping bark from an odum tree, ht. 2 1/8 in.

Provenance: Newman Collection, New Jersey.

Exhibitions: Asante Goldweights, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February-April 1988.
Estimate $300-400


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