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Gold Weight:  Frog
Gold Weight: Frog

Gold Weight: Frog

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.366
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
Dimensions5/8 x 1 1/2 x 2 3/16 in. (1.6 x 3.8 x 5.5 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.344
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.345
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.347
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.348
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.349
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.350
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.351
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.352
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.353
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.355
Gold weight:  leopard attacking goat
Akan
Object number: 81.17.357