Art Institute of Chicago
Goldweight with a Geometric Design
Asante or related Akan-speaking peoples
- Date
- 18th/19th century
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Culture
- Ghana
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This rectangular brass-cast gold weight is crisscrossed by the swastika form. The designs of gold weights are incredibly diverse—consisting of simple geometric designs in either high or low relief to representational sculptural forms based on items essential to West African life. Gold weights were used to measure gold dust, the local currency in the Akan-speaking regions of southern Ghana and the Ivory Coast between the 15th and the 20th centuries.
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- Object type
- AAT300411641
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