Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Costume (hierarchy name)
5. costume (mode of fashion)
6. costume accessories
7. worn costume accessories
8. jewelry
9. [jewelry by form]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. information artifacts
7. information artifacts by function
8. identifying artifacts
9. symbols of office

Anotations

Scope note:

Gold disks of the Akan people of Africa, often elaborately worked, usually worn as pectoral pendants, but known to be worn occasionally attached to caps or the hair or tied to the ankle. Their original function, especially among the Asante, was to mark the wearer as the "akra" or "soul washer" of a king, responsible for cleansing the king's soul in ceremonies of purification or soul renewal. Later on akrafokonmu became multifunctional, worn by kings, chiefs, sword bearers, heralds, sub-chiefs, war leaders, junior officials, and young girls at puberty ceremonies.