Ghanaian Collection

Costumes de Différents Pays, Negre de la Côte d'Or, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Negre de la Cote d'Or, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Gentilhomme de la Côte d'Or, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Gentilhomme de la Cote d'Or, c1797

Goldweight Depicting a Geometric Shape, Ghana, 17th / 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Goldweight Depicting a Geometric Shape, Ghana, 17th/18th century

Royal Chair (Akonkromfi), Ghana, Probably mid- / late 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Royal Chair (Akonkromfi), Ghana, Probably mid-/late 19th century

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, Ghana, 18th / 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Goldweight with a Geometric Design, Ghana, 18th/19th century

Wood hair comb from Ghana, 1950s. Creator: Unknown
It had been assumed that the afro comb was invented in the 1970s when the afro hairstyle became popular in the West, along with the Black is beautiful movement

Burl bowl, 1750-1850. Creator: Unknown
A large wooden bowl with an uneven shape and a rounded bottom. The lip is decorated with incised Adinkra symbols (symbols from Ghana that represent concepts or aphorisms)

Rites at Funeral of Ashantee Chief. Artist: A Thom
Rites at Funeral of Ashantee Chief. A print from The Faiths of the World, a Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Sects Their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, Vol I, by James Gardner

Ashanti architecture, Ghana, 1922Artist: PA McCann
Ashanti architecture, Ghana, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Prempeh, last of the Ashanti kings, Ghana, 1922. Artist: PA McCann
Prempeh, last of the Ashanti kings, Ghana, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

A Gold Coast potter and her clay, Ghana, West Africa, 1922. Artist: PA McCann
A Gold Coast potter and her clay, Ghana, West Africa, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

A woman from Accra, Ghana, 1922. Artist: PA McCann
A woman from Accra, Ghana, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Fanti women making earthenware, Elmina, Ghana, 1922. Artist: PA McCann
Fanti women making earthenware, Elmina, Ghana, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

A man and a boy from the Ashanti people, Ghana, Africa, 1936. Artist: LNA Images
A man and a boy from the Ashanti people, Ghana, Africa, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

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