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Cast brass or bronze miniature axes
Cast brass or bronze miniature axes
Object Number 99-12-50/53722
Display Title Cast brass or bronze miniature axes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Casting, brass weights shaped like axes
Classification
  • Casting
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Ashanti
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ghana
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Western
Materials Brass
Dimensions Overall: 5.7 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm (2 1/4 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 53722
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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