Apétéséni', charmier de Coumassé, c'est à dire: là où les vautours voltigent où les cadavres des victimes décapités étaint jetées Apeteseni, the field for corpses in Kumase, that is to say the place where the vultures come and where the victims of decapitation were thrown
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Note: "Photographie prise an 1896 lors de l'arrivée de l'expedition anglaise. Les officiers anglais avaient déjà brûlé pendant 2 jours des ... [unleserlich] humains." Note translation: "Photo taken in 1896 when the English expedition arrived. The English officers had already been burning humain ... [not readable] for 2 days."
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image
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b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 11.0 x 16.7 cm.
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