Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight Inuit craft There is a tiger puzzle

There is a tiger  puzzle by the same maker I believe

is that he became quite well known as an artist in the Modena

No chips or cracks or other structural issues

Unused backs

Chameleon? Antique Animal Shaped West African Ashanti Weight Inuit craft There is a tiger puzzleTiny, 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.