Pendant
Asante
1800–1950
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Dimensions
- 6.4 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm (2 1/2 × 1 1/4 × 1 in.)
- Genre
- pendant (jewelry)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
jewelryasanteafrican Artarts of AfricaCoastal West Africacostumecopper alloypendant (jewelry)
About
This brass pendant would have most likely been worn around the neck. It is weighted at the bottom, where two semicircular forms face each other with an open space between them. This piece of jewelry was created using the lost-wax technique.
