badge;
electrotype
- Museum number
- Af1956,09.1
- Description
-
Register 1956:
Electrotype copy of gold circular badge with relief designs; worn by soulbearers at court.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.60 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1956:
Casts from akrafokonmu. Soulbearers' badges, from the Ashanti court, obtained during the Ashanti wars.
COMMENT
These casts were presumably made for the V&A from the badges that had been brought back to London. The register records that the originals of nos.2 and 13-15 from which these electrotypes were made are in the BM.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Acquisition notes
- Af1956,09.1 to 15 is a group transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum of electrotypes of Ashanti soulbearers' badges, presumably made after one of the Asante wars.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,09.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: V&A1901-209 (Victoria & Albert Museum)