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Title	Brass weight
Date	1954-1989
Material Type	Brasswork (objects)
Description	Brass goldweight; figure of a man smoking a pipe and carrying a jug on his head; origin Ashanti people of Ghana.
Dimensions	Height: 5.5 cm.
Subject	Ashanti (African people) -- Social life and customs Art, Ashanti Goldweights, Ashanti Brass castings -- Ghana Brasswork -- Ghana
Geographic Region	Africa Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Ghana
Collector	Towles, Joseph A. Turnbull, Colin M.
Collection in Repository	Joseph A. Towles Artifact Collection
Call Number	1989.001.125a
Holding Institution	Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
Digital Collection	Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
Rights	Digital image copyright 2009, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
Media Type	Objects

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