Gold Weight: Chicken's Head, 18th–19th century, Ghana, Akan peoples, Brass, Length 1/2 in., Metal-Implements, Beginning in the fourteenth century, the Akan engaged in extensive trade with both the Portuguese and Spanish along the west coast of Africa, which subsequently came to be known as the 'Gold Coast.' The Akan used differing and complicated systems of measurement for trade with European and Islamic traders
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