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Description: | Brass gold weight, representing a sword fish. The fish has a curved tail, culminating in a heart-shaped back fin. Sword fish were considered to be particularly powerful among Akan speaking people because of their ability to produce electric shocks.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1994.288ix | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | weights Asante brass gold weights | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-48372 | Go to resource |
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