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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1944.35.4 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name weight, gold weight Description Square bronze weight with cross decoration used for weighing gold. One of a set of 18 gold weights given by Major A.V. Watson of the Gold Coast RegimentThis object is part of the West African Gold group because people of West Africa used these objects to weigh gold. Production place Kumasi, Ghana, Africa Production period Colonial Material bronze Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

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IPSMG:R.1944.35.4
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weight, gold weight
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Square bronze weight with cross decoration used for weighing gold. One of a set of 18 gold weights given by Major A.V. Watson of the Gold Coast RegimentThis object is part of the West African Gold group because people of West Africa used these objects to weigh gold.
Production place

Kumasi, Ghana, Africa
Production period

Colonial
Material

bronze