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3099BBoston
May 5, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Three Figurative Akan Goldweights

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Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 3099BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 05, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Three Figurative Akan Goldweights, a figure of the caretaker of the treasury, the sannahene, ht. 2 7/8; a woman smoking a pipe, ht. 2 1/4; and a man carrying a load, ht. 1 7/8 in.

Provenance: Newman Collection, New Jersey; purchased from J.J. Klejman, New York, October 1968 and January 1969.

Exhibitions: Asante Goldweights, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February-April 1988.
Estimate $400-600


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