Cleveland Museum of Art
Gold Weight (abrammuo): Fish
1800s
The prominence of fish-shaped weights in Asante cultures may be linked to the highly held value of wisdom, as the word for fish and wisdom in the Asante language is the same: <em>adwene</em>.
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