7 Weight and a small spoon to weigh gold, selling Akan Ghana, Ivory Coast, West Africa Bronze Vintage, ancient, usual, Ethnic

Lot of old and usual weights to weigh the gold powder.

African bronze, Akan.

This batch of old weights is composed of: 7 beautiful weights and a small spoon with gold powder.

Maximum dimensions between 1cm x 9mm x 6mm and 2.2cm x 1.8cm x 4mm approximately.
Spoon dimensions: 6.4cm x 3cm
Weight: 53g
approximately.


The Akan ethnic group is very important since it covers Ivory Coast (Agni, Abron, Baoulé, Yéouré), Ghana (Ashanti, Adansi ...) selling and Togo.
Considered "the chosen people" whose civilization is very ancient, all these groups have a common language Twi.

Among the Baoulé (Ivory Coast) and the Ashanti (Ghana), Akan peoples, there are brass figurines that were used until the end of the last century to weigh gold powder and small nuggets during commercial transactions

However, there is a great diversity of "weights"

Geometric shapes bear signs and were also used to communicate: by their combination the ancients "wrote" proverbs

The zoomorphic forms, as well as the representations of weapons, objects of everyday life, the characters, were in a way a representation of what already existed and therefore had to serve as a testimony to the following generations.


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