Description:
Six Figurative Akan Goldweights, a priest with a shrine and sword, ht. 2 1/2; a man smoking a pipe and carrying gunpowder, ht. 2 1/2; a man before "God's Tree," ht. 2 1/8; a man with walking stick and head load, ht. 2 1/4; a farmer smoking a pipe, ht. 1 3/4; a man standing before snakes, ht. 1 5/8 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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