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Akan Gold-Weight Balance

Also known as Abrammuo · goldweights

Akan Gold-Weight Balance: photograph by Brooklyn Museum (unknown maker)
Photo: Brooklyn Museum (unknown maker), CC BY 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Use a brass pan balance and a set of small cast figure weights to measure out gold dust for each customer's order within the fewest weighings.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Africa: Sahel, West and Central.

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