Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 25581 A-I: 'Nine geometric weights with swastika pattern'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

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 05/11/2001
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, square with geometric (swastika) pattern.
Event Date 31/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau