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: "Two crocodiles with one belly. 'A family has many throats but only one belly'. Often quoted to remind one who tends to depart from the communal family system that the family has many individual members, but a common interest. Rattray, Ashanti, p. 312-313. Zeller, R. Die Goldgewitch von Asante, Taf. XV, 399."
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: E379004-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Weight