Container for Gold Dust (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

20th century
Akan
Containers-Boxes
Metalwork
brass
Ghana, Africa
Overall: 1 × 3 3/8 × 1 3/8 in. (2.54 × 8.57 × 3.49 cm)
95.70
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Richard France
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

Symbol of Community: Animals in African Art, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, June 13 - August 21, 1998.
© artist or artist’s estate

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