Ashanti Bronze Gold Weight

Ridges, a long central bar and a small ring, all weathered into soft grey relief.

This Ashanti bronze gold weight is Ashanti, from Ghana, West Africa. Many Akan gold weights are linked to proverbs, so that a figure may call to mind a saying about wisdom, power or community. At a glance, a square plaque shows vertical ribs at top and bottom around a horizontal raised band that has a small circular hollow at the middle. The surface is pitted and silvery with brown deposits in the deeper grooves. It is 1.63 inches wide, 0.38 deep and 1.75 high.

Rugged, rumpled and quietly proud of every pit.