Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight handmade ruler with a matte

with a matte

Bs and C’s

Hand-turned

sprawling bounty of produce certainly covers all the bases for making a beautiful broth

is quite an apt combo I think

Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight handmade ruler with a matteTiny, but really wonderful, I believe this is a Akan (now Ghana) West African Ashnati weigh, used to for measuring out gold and gold dust, usually for trade. These weights, frequently figural and often in the shape of animals, were typically made of brass, as I believe this one is, cast using the lost wax method. I am tempted to say, with its large eye and coiled tail, that this one is meant to represent a chameleon, but I am not completely certain.