Adoo Quamina
This image depicts a captain and courtier to the Asante king, Adoo Quamina, on horseback. According to Hutton, this nobleman "made frequent visits, and we considered him much more as a spy of the [Asante] government, than a benevolent visitor" (p. 251). William Hutton was a British writer and artist who served briefly in the British foreign service in the Voltaic region. In January 1820, Hutton was part of a British envoy that received Adum, the nephew of the Asantehene (king), at Cape Coast.
Image Title
Adoo Quamina
RegID
SI-OB-660
Date
1820
Title
Adoo Quamina
Source
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820, au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 201. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Reproduced In
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820, au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 201.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Hutton02