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Gold weight:  man and bird
Gold weight: man and bird

Gold weight: man and bird

Object number81.17.369
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 9/16 x 3/8 x 1 3/16 in. (4 x 1 x 3 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight:  Bird and Snake
Object number: 81.17.359
Gold Weight:  Two Birds
Object number: 81.17.363
Gold Weight:  Two birds
Object number: 81.17.367
Gold weight:  three birds
Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight:  leopard and birds
Object number: 81.17.388
Gold weight:  bird and snake
Object number: 81.17.393
Gold weight:  man and monkey
Object number: 81.17.371
Gold weight:  leopard attacking man
Object number: 81.17.376
Gold weight:  sandals
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.1185