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2019.9.5 - Weight, Balance
Two figures are sitting down at a surface playing mancala, a centuries old game originating from Africa. One figure appears to have a head covering. Possibly a gold weight, or possibly a tourist genre figure. The Asante peoples of West Africa used gold dust as their currency for almost five centuries. To standardize prices, traders used a complex system of weights. Initially these weights were inspired by the geometric designs of the Arabic me...
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2019.9.6 - Weight, Balance
Geometric pattern gold weight with four raised squares on its surface. The Asante peoples of West Africa used gold dust as their currency for almost five centuries. To standardize prices, traders used a complex system of weights. Initially these weights were inspired by the geometric designs of the Arabic merchants' weights from North Africa, as in this weight's design.
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2019.9.7 - Weight, Balance
Rectangular gold weight with deep reddish patina and a swastika symbol on its surface. The Asante peoples of West Africa used gold dust as their currency for almost five centuries. To standardize prices, traders used a complex system of weights. There is debate about what swastikas (also known as the Monkey's Foot) mean in Asante culture. Some interpretations include that it represents an Akan queen mother hairstyle (a symbol associated wi...
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2019.9.8 - Weight, Balance
Brass Asante gold weight in the shape of a peanut and cast in the lost wax process. The Asante peoples of West Africa used gold dust as their currency for almost five centuries. To standardize prices, traders used a complex system of weights. Food items, including fruits, seeds, and in this case, a peanut, were depicted as gold weights. This was a nod to the trade of gold for foodstuffs as well as the fact that weight systems were original...
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2019.9.9 - Knife
Brass knife with spiral handle ending in a ram's head or nose ring design, probably a tourist trade object. The Asante peoples of West Africa used gold dust as their currency for almost five centuries. To standardize prices, traders used a complex system of weights. This brass dagger-shaped object could be a gold weight. However, its size suggests that it is more likely a brass genre figure made expressly for sale to tourists.
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2020.1.1.1 - Portfolio
Portfolio edition number 4 of 8. Individual prints are editioned between 20 and 30 impressions. Each print includes a rubber stamp of the Association for Creative Zoology emblem in blue or green with the edition number. The portfolio is comprised of nine prints, a title page, text page and seven prints of ornithological quadrupeds. The portfolio includes hand printed end-papers depicting hybrid animals, and a screenprinted cover. .1Title Pa...
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2020.1.1.10 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/30, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.2 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/20. Collected and Compiled by Reverend James Randolph Denton; Lithographed in Four Colours by Everitt Ormsby Hokes; A Publication of The Association for Creative Zoology; London & Philadelphia MCMXXIV.
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2020.1.1.3 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/15.
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2020.1.1.4 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.5 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/29, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.6 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.7 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/30, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.8 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/22, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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2020.1.1.9 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."
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UT2019.1 - Painting
Young blond woman seated with dog at right. Portrait of Barbara Blount, one of the first female students at Blount College (later the University of Tennessee) in 1804. Mary Etta Grainger was a prominent Knoxville art teacher and artist, recognized for her traditional portraits, and pastels of the Smoky Mountains. The subject of this portrait is Barbara Blount (1792–1836), the daughter of territorial governor and US senator William Blount, who...
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