Gold Weight in the Form of an Amoako and Adu Ado (Primary Title)
(Two men meeting after many years of separation and misfortune, very poor and thin (Translation)

Unknown (Artist)

19th-20th century
Akan
Tools, Equipment, Utensils
Metalwork
copper alloy
Ghana
Overall: 9/16 × 1 × 11/16 in. (1.43 × 2.54 × 1.75 cm)
2006.178
Gift of Robert and Nancy Nooter
Fortune, Courage, Love: Arts of Africa’s Akan and Kuba Kingdoms from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, William King Museum, Abingdon, Virginia, March 28 - July 12, 2015; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, September 26, 2015 - January 3, 2016; Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, Virginia, January 16 - March 6, 2016
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