Brass gold-weight
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Mar 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Charles C. Roberts
notes: label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "Brass objects were used as counterweights to measure gold dust. Altogether, some 60 weight values were used and named by Akan people."
label: Notes
content: From card: "A man putting a hen in a nest in a tree. Represents a fowl being offered on the altar to the Sky God; the eggs are represented in the basin on top of a forked pole. Rattray, Ashanti, p. 312 Zeller, R. Taf. XIX, 469, 470".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ghana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ashanti (Asante)
label: Culture
content: Akan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 147262
label: USNM Number
content: E378988-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Weight