Three Gold Weights: Sword, Fly Whisk, Amulet, 18th–19th century

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Three Gold Weights: Sword, Fly Whisk, Amulet, 18th–19th century, Ghana, Akan peoples, Brass, L. 1 3/4 in. ( cm) to 3 7/8 in. ( cm), Metal-Implements, Cast brass gold weights, known as abrammuo (sing. mrammuo), were developed by Akan merchants and rulers to standardize the trade in gold dust from mines in present-day Ghana in networks of exchange that extended beyond the Sahara Desert

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