photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A14.50
- Title
- Object: Procession of Asantehene Prempeh II at Kumasi Sports Ground in mourning for King George V
- Description
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Chief being carried on a palanquin at the procession in mourning for King George V, forty days after his death.Kumasi. 2-III-1936 (Photo: Mary S R Sinclair)
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1936 (2nd March)
- Dimensions
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Length: 12.05 centimetres
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Width: 18.32 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguer's comments: Some information provided by N F Barley, 29/09/1995.
According to the inscriptions in Af,A14, the procession was in mourning for King George V, forty days after his death.
Album contains 61 photographs.
Main themes of album: Travel through Ghana showing colonial residencies, indigenous settlements, and a procession and meeting of chiefs in Kumasi.
Albums Af,A8 to Af,A13 and Af,A15 to Af,A33 belong to the same series.
Circumstances: [SIN-] PIC DOC 08.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Album bound in full leather. Good condition.
- Acquisition date
- 1968
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum (?).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A14.50