Goldweight in the shape of a geometric clover / Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.135
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a geometric clover
- Artist Nationality
- Ghanaian
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Object Creation Place
- Africa (continent)
- Akan (historical region)
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Akan (historical region)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milford Golden
- Dimensions
- 1 cm x 1 cm (3/8 in. x 3/8 in.)
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Metalwork
- Primary Object Type
- goldweight
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a geometric clover.
- Subject Matter
- Among Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, merchants and traders used weights to weigh golddust, by placing an amount of golddust on one scale of a hand-held balance, and a weight such as this one on the other. All traders used to have their own set of weights, and for a transaction, each trader would weigh the golddust using his own weights. There were no fixed shapes or forms to represent a particular weight (or amount of gold dust), but each trader would have weights in a variety of shapes and sizes and would know the mass of all the weights in his own collection.
- Secondary Keywords
- africa (continent)
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- geographic and political locations
- geometric concepts
- goldweights
- landscapes (environments)
- mathematical concepts
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual and tactile
- Rights
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3888 x 2592
- File Size
- 91 KB
- Record
- 1986/2.135
- Link to this Item
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"Goldweight in the shape of a geometric clover; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-2.135/1986_2.135.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
