19th cent. gold rings
-one with an umbrella, stool and sword, the other with three umbrellas and two with animal motifs
-houston museum of fine arts
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the asante were by then the only akan state on the gold coast controlling an empire covering
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such gold jewellery was made in the tributary state dagbon using the lost-wax method
the rings worn by both men and women, elites and commoners typically several at a time
akan gold-casting tradition originated from the "western sudan"
Timothy F. Garrard
jstor.org/stable/4140580…
Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
Ivor Wilks
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Fo…