Accession No
E 1915.12.4-10
Description
Goldweights.
Place
Africa; West Africa; Ghana; Ashanti
Period
Source
von Hügel, Eliza Margaret (Baroness) [donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
E 1915.12.4-10; MAA: AR 1915.285; R 1915.285
Cultural Affliation
Asante [Ashanti]
Material
Metal; Brass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 for E 1915.12: 'Black stained or painted carved wooden oblong box with a sliding lid containing nine rectangular brass weights.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for E 1915.12: 'A set of nine rectangular brass weights in an oblong wooden box with sliding lid'.
Event Date 1915
Author: Alexandra McKeever
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: Alexandra McKeever
Context (Amendments / updates)
'Objects in E 1915.12 appear in Accession Register 8 as E 1915.13 and in Accession Registry 9 as E 1915.12. The box for the goldweights is marked with 1915.12. Some of the objects are also marked with AR and R numbers 1915.285. Only one had a suffix, the letter H. No suffixes could be found on the other objects. It was decided that the E 1915.12 number would be used with number suffixes.' (A.S. McKeever, 28/10/2019)
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Alexandra McKeever
Description (Physical description)
Goldweights.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Alexandra McKeever
FM:285267
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