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Gold weight:  dagger and sheath
Gold weight: dagger and sheath

Gold weight: dagger and sheath

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.386
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 9/16 in. (3.9 x 1 x 1.5 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.351
Gold weight:  leopard attacking goat
Akan
Object number: 81.17.357
Gold weight:  sword
Akan
Object number: 81.17.389
Gold weight:  three birds
Akan
Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight:  fish
Akan
Object number: 81.17.372
Gold weight:  leopard attacking man
Akan
Object number: 81.17.376
Gold weight:  horn
Akan
Object number: 81.17.384
Gold weight:  belt
Akan
Object number: 81.17.385
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.345
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.353
Gold weight:  Bird and Snake
Akan
Object number: 81.17.359