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Photo: Paul Macapia
Gold weight: mother and child
Photo: Paul Macapia

Gold weight: mother and child

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.382
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
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.] Text by Pamela McClusky. No cat. no., pp. 82, 85, reproduced pl. 51 (as Figurative weight (abrammuo): Woman carrying bowl).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions2 1/2 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (6.4 x 2.8 x 3.1 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight:  mother and children
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Object number: 81.17.392
Gold weight:  geometric
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Object number: 81.17.351
Gold weight:  leopard attacking goat
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Object number: 81.17.357
Gold weight:  sword
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Object number: 81.17.389
Gold weight:  three birds
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Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight:  fish
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Object number: 81.17.372
Gold weight:  leopard attacking man
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Object number: 81.17.376
Gold weight:  horn
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Object number: 81.17.384
Gold weight:  belt
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Object number: 81.17.385
Gold weight:  geometric
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Object number: 81.17.345
Gold weight:  geometric
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Object number: 81.17.353