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Five goldweights: water and land snails - Ghana, Akan
Five goldweights: water and land snails - Ghana, Akan
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Description
brass, proverbs: " You are as dirty as the water snail"; "If only the snail and the tortoise were left in the bush there would be no need to go hunting with a gun."
L: 1,2 cm - 3,9 cm
Provenance:
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)
Lit.: Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 589 - 594
Continent: Africa
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