State sword and sheath; made from Iron, wood, gold leaf, ray-skin . Asante people, Ghana, 19th century Such swords imparted the authority of the...
'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,...
Three gold bars equaling one million dollars of pure gold. The Ashanti Goldfields in Obouasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, West Africa. The Ashanti...
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II , Ghana's Asante king, receives artefacts returned by the Fowler Museum of UCLA to the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana, on...
Young Ashanti girls wearing kente cloth dance for the king at a royal durbar in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, West Africa.
Close up of an Akan king's hand showing traditional Ashanti rings made of pure gold. Such displays of wealth are a common sight at Durbars,...
Cape Coast King and his Court', circa 1880. Episode of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War . From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. III, by James Grant....
Ashanti Human sacrifice as a victim is taunted before execution. The Ashanti King looks on; Ghana ; Illustration 1837.
Ashanti comb. Combs were usually given as gifts from admirers or presented at marriage and women often wore more than one in their hair. They were...
The Black Watch patrol the forests of Ashanti in central Ghana, during the British-Ashante war of 1873-1874.
State sword and sheath; made from Iron, wood, gold leaf, ray-skin . Asante people, Ghana, 19th century Such swords imparted the authority of the...
Sir Garnet Wolseley's reception by the Native ladies at Cape Coast Town on his return from Coomassie , Ghana, February 19 Third Anglo-Ashanti War, a...
View Of Coomassie, The Capital Of Ashanti. Ashanti Empire, A Pre-colonial West African State In What Is Now Ghana .
Gold head, probably attached to the royal stool, perhaps the golden stool, symbol of the Ashanti emperor, Thought to represent the head of an...
Soul Disk Pendant, 1800s. Shared by different Akan and Akan-related peoples, including the Asante and Baule, gold ornaments indicate status and...
Kofi Karikari , king of Ashanti, Ghana, Third Anglo-Ashanti War, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume LXIII, July 26,...