The Ashanti belong to the ethnic group of the
Akan and inhabit the greater part of the south of Ghana. They are known for their artful metal work whose original purpose was the embellishment of weights, which were used for the weighing of gold dust, which was, up to the beginning of the 20th century, the official currency of the country.
The meaning of the Ashanti objects lies particularly in the variety of their artful expressiveness. The author
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, who is well known to experts, describes their art as the one with the strongest associations of all African forms of art.
A magnificent example of this is the Frowa- Tin, which has belonged to the
Kegel-Konietzko collection since 1956. Its age lies somewhere before 1950 and therefore not to be exaggerated.
The Frowas basically count as articles of daily use – usually jewellery, pomade and other things of daily use were kept in them.
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