Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card for 1970.19: 'The subject may refer to the 'berebow' - a knot of 'palm leaves' - used to obtain his patronage in a law suit and also 'to curse the king's life'.' [source of the information unknown, probably from donor].
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited: displayed in drawer under the Africa case, Maudslay Gallery (seen 31/10/2001).
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (References)
cf Cristaller, Johann Gottlob (1933) Asante and Fante Dictionary (Basel: Basel Evanglical Missionary Society), p. 14
Event Date 1933
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Dr Alexander Atta Yaw Kyeremanten (1916-76) and donated by Miss Mary Desborough Cra'ster [aka Craister] (1957-1988), Assistant Curator, MAA.
These probably given to Mary Cra'ster when Dr Kyerematen was in Cambridge in early 1970s and was working to turn his 1966 Oxford doctoral thesis into a book. It is unclear if they were intended as a personal gift to her or the museum.
Event Date 1970
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
Brass casting used in Akan areas for weighing gold. In the form of a piece of knotted leaf or fibre, probably the actual knotted fibre used for forming basis of cast. The subject may refer to the 'berebow' - a knot of 'palm leaves' - used to obtain his patronage in a law suit and also 'to curse the king's life'.
Event Date 13/4/2000
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Tabitha Cotterill: 'Many of the golweights at UCMAA have small coloured dots adhered to them. The numbers written on these refer to the weight of the goldweight in grams' (05/11/2001).
Event Date 5/11/2001
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited in "Currency in Africa", hosted from June 2005-February 2006, captioned Brass gold-weights. Gold-weights such as these were used to measure out gold dust into standardised quantities. Most of those which survive today bear abstract geometric designs, but some feature representations of, for example, cloth, animals, or weapons. Asante, Ghana. 1940.197, 1950.688, 1970.19, 1981.79 B, Z 25585 F & Z 24515 B. F. Veys, 19/7/2006"
Event Date 6/2005
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Clarke Gallery, Intro Case, Goldweights Drawer, from May 2012.
Event Date 1/5/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Brass goldweight representing a piece of knotted leaf or fibre, probably the actual knotted fibre used for forming basis of cast.
Event Date 13/11/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Dr A. A. Y. Kyeramateng is likely to be Dr Alexander Atta Yaw Kyeremanten, founder and first director of Ghana National Cultural Centre, Kumasi, which now bears his name.

Event Date 25/1/2021
Author: Benjamina Dadzie