Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 for 1940.197 [1]: 'Fish, twisted in half circle, unusual in that it is not a catfish with spikes around mouth, pointed face and flat body, stream-lined shape with one fin on top, raised eyes, incised circles'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Other owners)
Donor: Mrs Collins via her daughter Mrs Rickards.
Event Date 1940
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for 1940.197 [1-9]: '9 gold weights. Turtle, fish, stool, horn (this extraordinary), club, flint-lock pistol, hunter, tree cutter, bird-nesting'.
Event Date 1940
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Correspondence between H.W. Poulter, Assistant Curator at Colchester and Essex Museum, and T.T. Paterson regarding this collection is now Doc.566 in the archive.
Event Date 1940
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on Catalogue card for 1940.197: 'Checked July 73. Fish Horn'.
Event Date 7/1973
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on Catalogue card for 1940.197: 'Only 1 (fish) positively identified - rest probably given Z nos'. The note is not signed but the handwritting matches notes by D.A.S. dated 1978.
Event Date 1978
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Exhibited: "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.'
Event Date 6/2005
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Abrammo. Fish, twisted in half circle, with spikes around mouth, pointed face and flat body, one fin on top, raised eyes, incised circles.
Event Date 18/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau