Group of Five 18th/19th Century Akan Gold Weights Depicting Ceremonial Horns, Ghana

Group of Five 18th/19th Century Bronze Gold Weights Depicting Ceremonial Horns. Akan Culture, Ghana

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This group of finely cast bronze gold weights depicts a variety of ceremonial horns. Cast by Akan goldsmiths, small gold weights (mrammou) such as this were used to weigh gold dust - the currency of the Akan and potent symbol of kra (life-force) - between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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L (Smallest Gold Weight): 3cm

H (Largest Gold Weight): 6cm

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Estimated Period: 18th Century/19th Century

Ex Private Collection, UK

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