African Cast Bronze Akan Figural Ibis Bird Gold Scale Weight Tribal Miniature

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African Cast Bronze Akan Figural Ibis Bird Gold Scale Weight Tribal Miniature:
$36.42

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We are offering to you this fine old African akan figural Bird Ibis? scale weight.

This piece is about 1\" tall and weighs about 19.8 grams.

A stunning piece with wonderful color and makes quite a statement for such a small cast bronze piece.

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Gold weights have been called \"masterpieces in miniature\" reflecting artistry in service to commerce.

The weights are not gold but were used in the trade of gold. Until the end of the nineteenth century, gold (sika) was the currency of the Asante, Fante, Baule and other Akan peoples of Ghana.

Used in trade with European merchants along the Ivory coast or Islamic traders from the north, gold dust was measured on small scales called nsaniaa using small copper, bronze or brass sculpted weights known as abrammoa.

Most people engaging in trade owned a set of weights ranging in appearance from small geometrically patterned weights to complex figurative and representational weights.

Cast in the lost wax technique these small sculptures served to facilitate trade while depicting Akan values characterized through proverbs or popular sayings.

Weights would carry traditional proverbial lore or simply show people in everyday activity or comment upon social and political relationships, or to reflect upon religious acts and spiritual ideals. Humans, animals, fish, amphibians as well as objects of everyday life were apt subject for representation in weights.

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