gold-weight
- Museum number
- Af1956,27.174
- Description
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Lost wax cast figurative gold-weight, in brass, in form of scorpion (konkonkyea). Decorated with parallel lines of raised dots.
- Production date
- 18thC-20thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.30 centimetres
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Weight: 17.56 grammes
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Width: 2.40 centimetres
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Depth: 4.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Proverbs associated with this weight include:
'The sting of the scorpion is as slow to subside as a fire to cool.'
'The brown scorpion, when it stings a good child, the pain lasts until the hearth grows cold.'
'We don’t use the black scorpion to take part in a children’s game.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,27.174