Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink [late 20th century or early 21st century]: '1915.31.11'. [Incorrect number]
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Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Related Documents)
Accession register for 1915.31 gives the complete list of items - this list was compiled long after the acquisition of the objects and has been taped into the accession register. It reads: '1915.31 (1) representing state sword; (2) representing elephant's tail; (3 & 4) representing sceptres; (5 & 6) representing war captain's swords; (7) representing war bell; (8) representing fish; (9) representing bird (emblem of Gold Coast); (10) representing Captain's axe; (11) representing royal fan; (12 & 13) representing forge bellows; (14 & 15) representing funeral bells. Kumasi; (16 & 17) representing palanquins (state carriages); (18) representing locket worn by King Prempeh; (19) representing cocoa pod); (20-23) representing charms (swastika etc); (24) representing comb; (25 & 26) representing cobras; (27) representing snake (held up in the wilderness); (28) representing honeycomb; (29-31) pyramid-shaped; (32) annular, cruciform patter; (33) stool shaped; (34) [drawing of a cross]-shaped; A number of cowrie shells. (35-40) 1 brass sieve, 3 scales, 2 scoops; (41-43) 2 spoons & 1 small pan all of brass for measuring and handling gold, in use during the time of King Prempeh'. [Please note the total amount of goldweights listed here is 34, not 33].
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Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for E 1915.31: 'A set of thirty three brass weights representing various animals and objects: a sieve three scales, two scoops and two spoons, used for the handling of gold dust in the reign of King Prempe. Kumassi.'
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Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1915.31.28: 'Brass weight representing honeycomb'.
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Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
A small label kept with the object reads: 'R. 1915.286.19'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Related Documents)
There is a list of the E 1915.31 gold weighing set in the Blue Book, under 1915.37, but the goldweight listed do not tally up to 33 as stated in the Accession register and the Annual report for 1915. The items listed are: '1 representing cocoa pod; 4 representing charms (swastika + ots); 1 representing a comb; 2 representing cobras; 1 representing a snake (held up in wilderness); 1 representing honeycomb; 3 pyramid-shaped; 1 annular, cruciform pattern; 1 stool-shaped; 1 [drawing of a cross] -shaped; A number of cowrie shells. 1 brass sieve, 3 scales, 2 scoops, 2 spoons, + 1 small pan, all of brass for measuring and handling gold during the time of King Prempeh.'
Event Date 1915
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Related Documents)
Annual Report reads: '[1915.]286. A set of thirty-three brass weights, representing various animals and objects, a sieve, three scales, two scoops, and two spoons, used for the handling of gold dust, in the reign of King Prempe [sic]. TV. Assah-Kisseadoo, Esq.' [31st Annual Report, presented 11 May 1916, p.9]
Event Date 1916
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1915.31: 'Several positively identified - the rest lost nos and were given new Z nos. (D.A.S. August 1978)'. [The card covers 1915.31.1 - 1915.31.43].
Event Date 1978
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1915.31: There is a complete list of these weights Blue Book 1915.37. Joan S. Cunning'. [The card covers 1915.31.1 - 1915.31.43 - please see Blue Book transcription in this record for more info].
Event Date 4/4/2000
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
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'.
Event Date 5/11/2001
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
Abrammo. Brass goldweight in the shape of a disc with a 'net' pattern of raised lines, previously described as honeycomb.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The list of items accessioned as E 1915.31 taped into the Accession Register has been the basis for identification of objects and assigning goldweights specific numbers as it is the only complete list found to date.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
This object has been wrongly marked '1915.31.11' [recent marking, late 20th century or early 21st century] and had thus been mistaken for a royal fan. It is described as honeycomb in the accession register, but it was not possible to find any other goldweight representation of 'honeycomb' to compare it with. Very much like the 'fan' registered as E 1915.31.11, it is only decorated on one side, the other being plain and polished. There are two small protuberances on opposite sides which may suggest that the object was previously larger and is now incomplete. The break or removal of part of the object happened long before it came to the museum.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
There are two discs-like objects that were found with little labels (R.1915.286.19 and R 1915.286.20). From the list taped into the accession register, these objects are likely to be the honeycomb (E 1915.31.28) and the fan (E 1915.31.11). The descriptions of the objects on the list are far from accurate (an okra is referred to as a cocoa pod) so it is likely that these two objects are not actually honeycomb and a fan but something entirely different.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau