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Note translation: Published in John Parker "Making the Town, Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra", 2000, p.204. Caption there: "'Saturday beach boxing', c. 1917. An indigenous form of boxing called 'asafo atwere' was a popular leisure activity among Ga 'youngmen' (oblahii) by the first decades of the twentieth century."
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b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 15.2 x 20.0 cm.
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