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Heavy Bronze Akan Baoule Coin Bracelet
Young girls would never have been able to carry out their daily tasks with such a weight on their ankles… Commonly called slave bracelets because of the shape found in all African peoples, these heavy “jewels” were used as currency during important exchanges… They decorated the packsaddles of caravan animals for example. The tries, a motif well mastered by the Akan founders of Ghana, are superb. Authentic everyday object with the marks of the use that has been made of it.
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