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Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s, before 1871; pin added later. Gold, Overall: 7 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 x 5/8 in.). James Albert Ford Memorial Fund, 1944.290. CC0.
Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
1800s, before 1871; pin added later
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African Art
Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s, before 1871; pin added later. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths’ guild. Gold; overall: 7 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 x 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1944.290 An 1886 letter indicates that the English doctor Harry T. Reilly received this disk as a gift from three Asante chiefs for providing them with medical care while they were imprisoned in Cape Coast Castle in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Ashanti war (1863-64).