Sword Bearers Ashanti
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA GH-20-05
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Numbering Peculiarities Note
- Verso labelled with former accession number format: A1995-1-44. Additional accession number on verso: EEPA 1985-140307.
- Creator
- Methodist Book Depot Ltd. (Ghana)
- Place
- Africa
- Ghana
- Topic
- Portrait photography -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Provenance
- Bryna Freyer Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Av., S.W., Washington, DC 20560; FY 1995 EEPA 1995-001
- Creator
- Methodist Book Depot Ltd. (Ghana)
- Culture
- Ashanti (African people)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 20: Ghana (GH)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (photograph., monochrome, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA GH 1995-001-0044
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Postcard image of a group of four Ashanti men bearing swords on the West Coast of Africa. Printed in Great Britain. Original caption reads, "Sword Bearers, Ashinti." Original Text on reverse reads: "This is the time for everyone to stand together, and hold firm! - The Prime Minister."
- Item number on recto: "N⁰ 59."
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "Copyright of Methodist Book Depots, Cape Coase, Gold Coast; This is a real photograph; Printed in Great Britain."
- Stamp box reads: "1d. Stamp if with only sender's name and address and 5 words conventional greeting; G."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088037-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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