Real Weight Akan
Akan · West Africa
Reference: PGM-60
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- Height
- 5.50 cm
- Material
- African Bronze
Actual weight of 148,8 grams. Weights of a weight higher than 80 o 100 grams are considered real weights although they can also be part of…
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Full original description
Actual weight of 148,8 grams. Weights of a weight higher than 80 o 100 grams are considered real weights although they can also be part of the dja of the notables. The dja is the cloth wrapping in which the weights of weighing the gold of the family heritage are kept. It is a two-height weight. In the upper height there are two vertical lines, parallel, of different width and a slightly rectangular figure with two notches on one side or another on the adjacent side, forming a kind of teeth to facilitate the calculation of the weight in bass or takous of the weight, units of weight that will then be translated into grams. The "ba" is two grams of the seed of the "precatory abrus" (base of the unit of weight) and three grams of the "takou".
Further technical information
- Width
- 5.50 cm
- Attributed period
- Century XVII a XIX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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West Africa. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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