An Ashantee Soldier
This engraving shows an Asante soldier wearing bead, while holding a rifle and a horn. This military traditions are found among maroon communities in Jamaica, where they are known as "abeng." Joseph Dupuis (1789–1874) was Consul and Vice-Consul for the British Government between 1811 and 1842. He made several trips to Africa, including a meeting with the Asantehene Osei Bonsu in 1820 in an effort to solidify trading arrangements and resolve territorial disputes following British abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
Image Title
An Ashantee Soldier
RegID
SI-OB-887
Date
1824
Title
An Ashantee Soldier
Source
Joseph Dupuis, Journal of a Residence in Ashantee, comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast, and the interior of Western Africa, chiefly collected from Arabic mss. and information communicated by the Moslems of Guinea; to which is prefixed an account of the origin and causes of the present war (London: Henry Colburn, 1824), facing p. 193.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2007; 29-Aug-19
Identifier
B026