Weight Lace
A bond means a solid union such as friendship, love, marriage or the given word that has no backsliding. But in the…
PDP-4
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Weight Lace
A bond means a solid union such as friendship, love, marriage or the given word that has no backsliding. But in the…
APO-10
Chicken Weight With Her Chickens
The chicken with her chicks is the symbol of maternal love. It has a proverbial value: The chicken knows when the day…
PDP-5
Bull Peso
The bull is a symbol of bravery and strength.
PDP-6
Leopard Weight With Your Dam
The leopard is a good hunter, fast and intelligent.
PDP-7
Pesa Turtle with Bird
The turtle carries a bird on its back while the bird removes the parasites with its beak. The weights representing a turtle…
PDP-9
Crocodile With Fish
The crocodile, a mythical animal in many African ethnicities, is an excellent fisherman. And... if you eat the fish you don't eat…
PDP-10
Weight Allegory
It is a weight that represents an akan allegory of difficult interpretation.
PFG-7
Ty Wara Mask Weight
Stylized representation of a male Ty Wara mask of the Bambara of Mali.
PFG-8
Pesa Crocodile
Representation of a mythical animal crocodile baulé and abundant in the rivers and lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire. In culture Akan a crocodile…
PFG-9
Ibis weight
Representation of an ibis. Alain Anselin speaking of the Koré Duga of the Bambara states that "the ibis enjoys a mythical status…
1
Pipes and Fish Weights
Representation of two fish and two pipes. All these bronze weights are made by the procedure of lost wax. Most weights representing…
PFG-10
Fish Weights
Representation of two different types of fish according to the imagination of the castor. Most weights representing a fish have proverbial value,…
PFG-11
Domestic Scenes
Various domestic scenes, one woman fanning the cereal, another stacking the millet and a man with his basket under his arm and…
PFG-12
Various weights
Ancient and rare geometric weights that denote an influence of the passage of Muslim merchants. Very old pieces.
PGM-6
Miscellaneous Parts
Various geometric weights.
PGM-7
Geometric weight
It weighs in the form of a rectangular prism.
PGM-8
Kuduo
Small bronze container, circular base, called kúduoWithout the lid, it doesn't usually go beyond 10 or 15. It is frequently raised on…
APO-11
Weight Akan Weighing The Gold
These pieces of the century XIX were used in the territory of Baulé until well into the century XX. They are all…
PGM-10
Double Crocodile Weight
Weights or ornaments with a double crocodile are a typical representation akan, extended in both Ghana and Ivory Coast. It symbolizes male…
PFG-13
Kuduo O Joyero
Small bronze container, circular base, about 15 to 20 centimeters. Without the lid it does not usually pass from 10 or 15.…
APO-17
Kuduo
Small container of bronze, of circular base, of 15 a 20 cm. Without the lid does not usually pass from 10 or…
APO-18
Weighing Weight Gold: Esvastica
Ancient weight represents a swastika, cross that comes from the scriptural script of the 5th century B.D. C. It is a fairly…
PGM-11
Weighing Weight Gold: Esvastica
Ancient weight represents a swastika, cross that comes from the scriptural script of the 5th century B.D. C. It is a fairly…
PGM-12
