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Bird in a Magic Knot: Clock Bird Gold Weight (Sankasfa)
Bird in a Magic Knot: Clock Bird Gold Weight (Sankasfa)

Bird in a Magic Knot: Clock Bird Gold Weight (Sankasfa)

Maker Ghanaian
Object number51.235
ProvenancePurchased from Altman Antiques; Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 1951
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Feb. 7 - May 19, 2002. [Exhibition traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Frist Center for Visual Arts, but object not included.]
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 1/8 x 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. (2.8 x 1.2 x 3.5 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight: antelope with two birds
Gold weight: antelope with two birds
Object number: 68.62
Image Not Available for Gold weight: bird and snake
Gold weight: bird and snake
Object number: 81.17.356
Gold weight: Bird and Snake
Gold weight: Bird and Snake
Object number: 81.17.359
Gold Weight: Two Birds
Gold Weight: Two Birds
Object number: 81.17.363
Gold Weight: Two birds
Gold Weight: Two birds
Object number: 81.17.367
Gold weight: man and bird
Gold weight: man and bird
Object number: 81.17.369
Gold weight: three birds
Gold weight: three birds
Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight: leopard and birds
Gold weight: leopard and birds
Object number: 81.17.388
Gold weight: bird and snake
Gold weight: bird and snake
Object number: 81.17.393
Photo: Paul Macapia
Figurative Weight (abrammuo): Sankofa Bird
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.397
Gold weight: sandals
Gold weight: sandals
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1185
Gold weight: geometric
Gold weight: geometric
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1190