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Gold Weight:  Two birds
Gold Weight: Two birds

Gold Weight: Two birds

Object number81.17.367
Provenance[Bernheimer's Antique Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts]; purchased by Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1966; 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
Dimensions2 x 2 1/4 x 11/16 in. (5.1 x 5.7 x 1.7 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold Weight:  Two Birds
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Ghanaian
Object number: 51.184
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Ghanaian
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