Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
1800s, before 1871; pin added later
Maker Unknown
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).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Formatted Medium
- Gold
- Medium
- gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 x 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 1944.290
- Credit Line
- James Albert Ford Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Imagination of Primitive Man, The Arts of Ghana, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, College of Science Dublin - c. 1870s or 1880s<br><br>Portland Art Museum (11/21/1952 - 12/28/1952): "Exhibition of Jewelry"<br><br>Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (1/18/1962 - 2/25/1962): "The Imagination of Primitive Man"<br><br>UCLA Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles (September 1977 - 8/1/1978): "The Arts of Ghana", traveling exhibition<br><br>MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 108C Akan & Yoruba
Have a concern, a correction, or something to add?
