Details
SIXTY AKAN BRASS GOLDWEIGHTS: a figure holding a gun, another with a sword, a turtle with a fish in its jaws, a fish, a fish on a grill, a bird with cannons on its back, three other birds, three casings from nature (a small crab, a bird's claw and a peanut), a shield, two gongs, two stools, crossed swords, two cartridge belts, another figurative weight, and thirty-nine geometric weights (60)
Provenance
Sir Robert Archibald Scott, research scientist
Collected in the Gold Coast at the turn of the century whilst Sir Robert Archibald Scott was researching Bilharzia. The weights were given to the present owner in 1940 by Gwen Syzling, niece of Sir Walter Scott
Collected in the Gold Coast at the turn of the century whilst Sir Robert Archibald Scott was researching Bilharzia. The weights were given to the present owner in 1940 by Gwen Syzling, niece of Sir Walter Scott