Akan Goldweights

The Akan Goldweights collection
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  • Human figures
    • Human figures 1
    • Human figures 2
    • Human figures 3
    • Human figures 4
    • Human figures 5 (pairs)
    • Goatman and others
    • Horseman
  • Animals
    • Birds
      • Birds with fruit, cockroach, watering place
      • Cockerel, head of cockerel, knotted cockerel heads
      • Birds on a tree or pole
      • With snake
      • With cage
      • Bird traps
      • On rostrum
      • Looking backwards
      • Hornbills and others
      • Incomplete and other, canonbird
      • Small bird out of wood
    • Four-legged
      • Antelopes
      • Bushbuck
      • Reedbuck
      • Buffalo
      • Elephant, porcupine
      • Leopard
      • Crocodiles
      • Uncertain identification
    • Fish
      • Mythical animals and fins
      • flat fishes
      • Sawfish
      • Catfish
    • Snakes
    • Chameleon, frogs, tortoises, scorpions
  • Household articles
    • Drums and ding dongs
    • Axes
    • Cutlasses, hoes and a plyer
    • Bellows, hammers
    • Oil lamps, Ovare games
    • Chairs, stools, backrests
    • Sandals
    • Fans
      • Various Fans
      • Elephant tail wisk
    • Knots and strainers
      • Wisdom knots
      • Bundles of Strings
      • Items similar to knots
      • Strainers
    • Boxes
      • cast boxes and lids
      • small tin boxes
      • Kuduus and other containers
    • Sheanut Butter Containers
    • Blowpans, Spoons, 1 Plyer and Scales
  • Weapons
    • Flintlock muskets
    • Ammunition belts
    • Canons and others
    • Swords
    • Daggers
    • Shields
    • Horns
  • Casts after nature
    • Fruits, seeds and unidentified objects
    • Fruits, seeds and one foot of a chicken
    • Fruits
    • Crabs and 1 locust
    • Snail and 1 fish
    • Beetles
  • Goldweights as room decoration
  • Geometric 1
    • A Round
    • B Barpattern
    • C “Letters”
  • Geometric 2
    • D One-sided combpatterns
    • E Double-sided combpatterns
  • Geometric 3
    • F Crosses
    • J Pyramids
    • K Swastikas
    • P Triangles
  • Geometric 4
    • G Miscellaneous long, slim patterns
    • H Deeply engraved (primarily triangles)
    • I Large points/circles etc.
    • L Small compact weights
    • M Large and larger
    • N Various, primarily small weights
    • O Various, partly large weights
  • Geometric 5
    • Q Various ornamental triangles and polygonal and others (composed)
    • R Elongated with surrounding patterns,
    • S With small circles and without pattern and others
    • T Fragments, unidentified and 1 arabic weight
    • U Various sizes, different patterns
    • V Various rectangular patterns
    • W Weights adjusted with lead

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Published on December 13, 2017 in mythical animals and finsFull resolution (999 × 1333)
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