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Gold weight:  leopard and birds
Gold weight: leopard and birds

Gold weight: leopard and birds

Maker Akan
Object number81.17.388
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 7/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 11/16 in. (3.6 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm)
MediumCast brass (cire perdue)
Gold Weight:  Two Birds
Akan
Object number: 81.17.363
Gold Weight:  Two birds
Akan
Object number: 81.17.367
Gold weight:  three birds
Akan
Object number: 81.17.380
Gold weight:  leopard attacking goat
Akan
Object number: 81.17.357
Gold weight:  leopard
Akan
Object number: 81.17.374
Gold weight:  leopard attacking man
Akan
Object number: 81.17.376
Gold weight:  Bird and Snake
Akan
Object number: 81.17.359
Gold weight:  man and bird
Akan
Object number: 81.17.369
Gold weight:  bird and snake
Akan
Object number: 81.17.393
Gold weight:  geometric
Akan
Object number: 81.17.344