Beschreibung:

Two hundred and four Ashanti brass goldweights 18th/19th century Cast as a gaming board, an oil lamp, three cartridge belts, a porcupine, two scorpions, a leopard with young, another with a snail, another with an antelope, nine antelopes, four snakes with birds, a snake with an animal, two birds on openwork bases, two each of seven birds on a tree, two birds in traps, another on a perch, another on a geometric panel, two of birds harrassing a beetle, fifteen other birds, two cockerel heads, two terrapin, a seated monkey, a chameleon, four crocodiles, crossed crocodiles, a crocodile with mudfish, four mudfishes, another fish, a pair of sandals, a bundle of tools, a bow and arrow, a double gong/bell, three axes (two without blades), four daggers in scabbards, twelve ceremonial swords, two others with double blades, two pommels of ceremonial swords, four muskets, three pistols, three complete cannon, two cannon barrels, an emplacement of three cannon, two of birds with cannon on their wings, four elephant-tail fly whisks, a circular fan, three lucky knots, a tripod, a lock, two treasure chests, a pipe, fourteen ceremonial horns, seven shields two of which are of openwork form, a jack, a trowel, a pyramid, thirty-three geometrics, twelve of various shapes of which some are fragmentary, eleven others cast from nature such as a small crab, a locust, seeds and nuts; and a head with spiral coiffure cast in a silvery alloy (204)