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Crocodiles were often associated with chiefs as an animal with the ability to move between worlds, namely water and land.", "primary": true }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 2013, "value": "2013-12-18", "latest": 2013, "primary": true } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2013, "value": "2013-12-18", "latest": 2013, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna", "source": "object" }, "sort": "01", "type": "description", "value": "Brass gold weight in the form of a crocodile. 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Gold dust was a form of currency, used predominantly by Akan speaking people from the 14th century to 1900, when the practice was banned by the British Government in Ghana in an attempt to standardise trade using a monetary system. Once they were banned, they flooded the European art market, purchased and brought back by European traders. \n \nSuch weights would have been made by goldsmiths using the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclost wax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 technique, where a shape is carved or molded out of wax before being dipped in several layers of clay slip. Once the slip has dried, molten brass is poured into the mould, replacing the wax by melting it. \n \nThese weights would often initially have been commissioned by an individual, and then passed down the matrilineal line through inheritance. As trade in gold dust was predominantly an activity reserved for men, an individual would inherit the weights passed down through his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother. It was said that a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soul inhabited the things they used, and thus a collection of inherited weights might be understood to be an assemblage of highly spiritual and personal objects, representing ones ancestors. \n \nSuch weights often tell a story, representing items of prestige, or characters from popular stories or proverbs. This example is in the form of a crocodile. 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