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Nineteenth-Century Images of Life Among the Asante and Other West Africans

Owning Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Digital Scholarship Services

About this Collection

Engravings of ordinary people and everyday objects from the Gulf of Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century. These include Fante, Ouidah, and Asante people, as well as a stool, cushion, various hats, a fetish place, and a Dutch plantation. There is also an eighteenth century map of the region.

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2 items found in this collection

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Akan King of East Wassa
Fante men and women
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