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The contents (some pieces published In English
No chips or cracks or other structural issues
but I can't make them out
to my sensibilities
This wonderful little Richard Rohac cat shaped corkscrew
Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight Inuit craft The contents (some pieces publishedTiny, but really wonderful, I believe this is a Akan (now Ghana) West African Ashnati weigh, used to for measuring out gold and gold dust, usually for trade. These weights, frequently figural and often in the shape of animals, were typically made of brass, as I believe this one is, cast using the lost wax method. I am tempted to say, with its large eye and coiled tail, that this one is meant to represent a chameleon, but I am not completely certain.
