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Article · 1973
Studies in Akan Goldweights (4): The Dating of Akan Goldweights
Timothy F. Garrard
Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
1973
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Akan MHNT.ETH.2010.25.028-fond blanc
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Akan MHNT.ETH.2010.25.034-fond blanc
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Akan MHNT.ETH.2010.25.122
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Gold Weight
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Article · 1982
Erotic Akan Goldweights
Timothy F. Garrard
African Arts
1982
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Article · 1968
Ashanti Goldweights - African Miniatures: the Goldweights of the Ashanti. By Margaret Webster Plass. London: Lund Humphries, 1967. Pp. 26, 166 plates. 50s.
J.D.F.
The Journal of African History
1968
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African goldweights
Book · 2010 · Open Library
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Akan Goldweights
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African miniatures
Book · 1967 · Open Library
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Article · 1971
Goldweights of Asante
M. D. McLeod
African Arts
1971
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Article · 1979
Goldweights/Goudgewichten
Doran H. Ross, Harrie M. Leyten
African Arts
1979
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Article · 2021
André NITECKI, Equal Measure for Kings and Commoners: Goldweights of the Akan, Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, 1982. 69 pages, maps, photographs
Stephen Inglis
EXHIBITION / EXPOSITION
2021
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Article · 2012
Goldweights of the 19th Century Australian Colonists
Laura Potter
Semantic Scholar
2012
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Gold Weight
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