gold-weight
- Museum number
- Af1955,13.36
- Description
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Lost wax cast figurative gold-weight, in brass, in the form of a side-blown elephant-horn (akoben) decorated with representations of 4 human jaw-bones (mmogye) around the rim. The shaft of the horn is covered in evenly-spaced raised dots that represent a ray-skin sheath.
- Production date
- 1700-1955
- Dimensions
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Length: 6.70 centimetres
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Weight: 13.56 grammes
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A proverb associated with this weight states: ‘The war horn (akoben) means trouble is on the way.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1955:
1-62 Obtained by donor from the old blind executioner of the Asantehene Prempeh I in 1913.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1955,13.36