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Gold Weight3600/26

Small rectangular gold weight with geometric design. At centre, two raised rectangles.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/24

Small, thin rectangular gold weight with geometric design. Two rows of design separated by a horizontal line. The top row consists of three v-shapes, each with an extra line through the centre, and the bottom row of eleven raised lines in a row.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/22

Small rectangular gold weight with geometric design. Geometric design cutout of top layer with thin rectangular backing. Mirrored u-shape with line through centre flanked by teeth-like design on sides with six rectangular notches cutout leaving seven raised lines.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/20

Small square gold weight with geometric design. Each side edge has five rectangular notches. Extending across the surface are lines of repeating indented crescent shapes.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/18

Fish gold weight. Small flat fish with imprinted circles all over the body, and small circular raised eyes. The mouth is a small notch. The large dorsal fin and small pectoral fin are both marked with angled lines, and the tail fin has three raised lines - one down the centre, and one down the top and bottom.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/16

Small figurative gold weight of a bird. The bird's body is formed with two loops, one slipped over the other, to create a knot. The head is at the other end of one loop, and the tail opposite the end of the other loop. The bird has a long neck with a comb on top of its head. The tail is flat and triangular, angled upwards, and marked with concentric triangles. The bird stands on a thin rectangular base.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/15

Small gold weight of a bird with its elongated neck curved so that its beak touches its back, just above the raised tail feathers. The eyes and wings are concentric circles. The upward angled tail has small notches along the end. The bird stands on a square stepped pedestal, with triangular notches at the centre of each side of the bottom two steps.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3600/14

Small gold weight of a pair of birds facing one another, with their beaks side by side. The birds both have combs on their heads, four raised dotted lines around their bodies, and flat triangular tails marked with cross-hatched lines. They rest on a shared perch that is mounted on a single post at centre, which attaches to a stepped square pedestal.

Culture
Akan
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blanket3600/7

Heavy white rectangular blanket consisting of six woven strips, stitched together along the long edges. Five decorative columns run across centre section of blanket; all made up of black geometric designs with brown, yellow, and white highlights throughout. Designs consist of triangles, diamonds, checkers, plain and dotted lines, and zigzags. Central section bordered by wide brown bands, with white and black diamonds through middles, trimmed with black; white dots along black borders. Additional geometric motifs on outer edges of brown bands. Left and right edges of blanket bordered with black bands; two braided tassels extend from either side, in centre.

Culture
Fulani
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Nigeria ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sandals3600/10 a-b

Pair of leather and rubber sandals with ankle and toe loop straps; straps threaded through cuts in insoles and nailed down. Soles are flat, rounded at toes and heels; “X”’s incised along edges of rounded sections of insoles. Straps are beige leather and have patterned bands across surfaces. Patterns consist of: triangles and zigzags, thin and thick stripes, checkered bands, and diagonal stripes. Designs done in dark blue, gold, white, dark red, and green.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
leather skin, rubber, fibre, metal and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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