Weight Akan

Piece certainly from the group I baulé according to the study by H.Abel. Weights greater than 80 o 90 grams were considered real weights and were only possessed by kings and notables. These pieces were used in the Baule territory until well into the century XX. They are all different, both in shape and in size or weight. All of them are decorated with different motifs on their surface. These motifs constitute a true code of signs, a language known only to the high initiated. Fr. Georges Niangoran Nbouah, q.e.p.d. left us an extensive three-volume treatise on the weights of weighing gold, certainly the first and most in-depth study on the subject.

Rectangular piece quite irregularly crossed in its opposite vertices by two lines forming an elongated "X". On each of the triangles formed on the shorter sides there is a solid circle in relive while on the other ends there are two lines parallel to the widths angles of the "X", and what looks like another small line covered by the foundry. Its weight is of 63,5 grams and their measurements 51x1,8 cms.