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Description: | Brass gold weight representing a cat-fish, or mud-fish. Mud-fish were often assoiled with the Oba of Benin, considered powerful in their ability to traverse between worlds of water and land, as chief's were though to mediate between human and spirit worlds.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1994.288xvi | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Akan brass gold weights | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-48361 | Go to resource |
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