Brass gold-weight
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jun 1930
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: "Rectangular weight with swastika design. Zeller, R. Die Goldgewichte von Assante, Taf. III, 27."
label: Notes
content: Similar weights with swastika designs are in the collections of the National Museum of African Art, see for example Object number 73-19-16. The online catalogue entry for that object notes about the design: "The bent arm cross or swastika ... is a traditional design that is usually described as a stylization of the crossed crocodile motif. The crossed crocodiles have one belly but when eating they fight. The meaning conveyed is 1) there is unity in diversity, and 2) it is a mockery of greediness - since in the end, it all goes to the same place, the stomach." Source: https://africa.si.edu/collections/objects/569/, retrieved 11 October 2021.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 110352
label: USNM Number
content: E349089-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Weight