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Description
Note: Mantse Takie (B. Gardi). - Note translation: Mantse Takie (B. Gardi). - Published in John Parker "Making the Town, Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra", 2000, p.171. Caption there: "Ga mantse Taki Obili and his household c. 1904. This portrait was probably taken at the time of Taki Obili's enstoolment in 1904. The Ga mantse and the unnamed women on his right wear luxury kente cloth from Asante." (PJ 04.2001). -
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, albumen 11.2 x 18.2 cm.
Takie (king) Chief m Chief's wife Child Entourage Group Headgear Horn Horn player m Insignia of rank Men's wear Nobility Sword Textile pattern Women's wear
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