Dataset / Metadata Record · R. S. Rattray, Ashanti (1923) — via Internet Archive

Indigenous visual systems before colonial rule

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Scholarly accounts of pre-colonial Ghana describe long-established Akan Ga Ewe and related visual languages in gold regalia stamped and woven cloth shrine arts proverbial weights and memorial sculpture. R. S. Rattray's early ethnographic work and subsequent museum catalogues document these as commun

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