gold-weight
- Museum number
- Af1955,05.126
- Description
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Lost wax cast figurative gold-weight, in brass, in the form of a European- style mounted cannon (apremo).
- Production date
- 1700-1955
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.80 centimetres
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Weight: 21.08 grammes
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Proverbs associated with this weight state:
'A cannon does not miss game.'
'If you inherit from a white man, you fight with cannons.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1955:
[Collection] made by the donor’s father, F.N. Best, Esq., a managing director of a gold mine (? The Ofin River Mine), and later of the Naraguta Tin Mine in N.Nigeria. His visit to the Gold Coast may have been about 1898/1900, and to Nigeria about 1906/1907.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1955,05.126
