Weights (5)
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- Description
- Five small brass weights with geometric patterns. Bruno Kisch, who bough these in Paris for the National Museum of History and Technology, believed them to be Ashanti. We now think they were made in Paris, for use in West Africa.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Weights
- Object Type
- Weights
- Measurements
- base weight 4: 7/16 in x 11/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 1.74625 cm
- weight 3: 3/8 in x 1/2 in x 7/16 in;.9525 cm x 1.27 cm x 1.11125 cm
- weight 5: 1/4 in;.635 cm
- weight 2: 1/2 in x 5/16 in x 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x.79375 cm x.635 cm
- weight 4: 5/16 in;.79375 cm
- weight 1: 1 1/8 in x 7/8 in x 3/16 in; 2.8575 cm x 2.2225 cm x.47625 cm
- overall: museum housing: 1/2 in x 3 in x 4 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.3825 cm
- ID Number
- CH.319527
- catalog number
- 319527
- accession number
- 239022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Bruno Kisch
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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