Currently not on view
Gold dust box (abamphruwa),
before 1987
This small brass box served as a container for gold dust. In Akan imagery, the alligator is associated with the fierceness of rulers.
Information
before 1987
Africa, Côte d’Ivoire
[Colette Ghysels, Brussels, Belgium, by 1987]; John B. Elliott, New York, NY, 1987; Princeton University Art Museum, 1998
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