Weights (13)
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content: Thirteen small figurative brass weights ranging from 2.85 gms. to 42.15 gms. Bruno Kisch purchased these in Paris for the National Museum of History and Technology, believing them to be Ashanti. We now suspect they were made in Paris, for use in West Africa.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: CH.318235
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content: 318235
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content: 235398
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content: Weights
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content: overall: container: 1 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 in; 4.445 cm x 11.43 cm x 10.16 cm