This small brass woman "akwaba" gold weight pendant is a representation of the fertility doll figure that women in Ghana wear on their backs, carved in wood and larger, when they want to promote their own pregnancy. Pendants of this type were made as gold weights when gold was the common currency everywhere in West Africa, more than 100 years ago. Each small brass gold weight pendant is individually hand cast using the traditional lost wax casting method so no two are exactly alike. We offer a selection here from which you may choose, individually. Elsewhere on our site we offer individual pendants of this type from which you may choose.

Here, we offer you a set of 6, assorted, at a discounted price. The price quoted here is for the set of 6

These same gold weight pendants are available for purchase strung on leather as necklaces elsewhere on our site.

Each of these pendants was individually made, one by one, by the ancient traditional lost wax casting process where the object is first shaped of bees wax then covered with a sand & clay investment. This unit is dried and then baked so the investment hardens and the wax runs out leaving the space into which the molten brass is poured. Once cooled the investment is removed, broken off, never able to be used again, to yield the object so cast. Every single object of this type, no matter how small, is made this same way, one by one, by hand. As a result no two are identical; each manifests its own particularities: shape, size, casting details, metal characteristics.

Approximately 2" height (5 cm)