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Gold weight:  Bird and Snake
Gold weight: Bird and Snake

Gold weight: Bird and Snake

Object number81.17.359
Provenance[Julius Carlebach Gallery, New York]; purchased from gallery by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1961; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
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 LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions1 1/16 x 2 x 1 1/8 in. (2.7 x 5.1 x 2.9 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight:  bird and snake
Object number: 81.17.393
Gold Weight:  Two Birds
Object number: 81.17.363
Gold Weight:  Two birds
Object number: 81.17.367
Gold weight:  man and bird
Object number: 81.17.369
Gold weight:  three birds
Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight:  leopard and birds
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Gold weight:  sandals
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1185
Gold weight:  geometric
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1190
Gold weight
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1206