Gold weight: fish
Maker
Akan
Object number81.17.372
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., pp. 34-35, reproduced pl. 40 (as goldweight).
Seattle, 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 3/4 x 2 x 3/8 in. (7 x 5.1 x 0.9 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)