- Museum number
- Af1891,0114.1
- Title
- Series: Asante Gold
- Description
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Gun-bearer's cap (krobonkye). Kidney-shaped, moulded from one piece of antelope hide, blackened on the outside, and embellished with alternating strips of sheet silver and gold in the shape of leaves (aya) decorated with repoussé-work. The strips radiate outwards towards the top of the cap which is embellished with a circular gold repoussé rosette. The metalwork is attached to the leather by lengths of gold and iron wire which are threaded through holes and fastened by twisting the ends together on the inside of the cap.
- Production date
- 1800-1874 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.40 centimetres
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Weight: 100 grammes
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Width: 19 centimetres
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Depth: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Collection File: Af1891,0114.1-2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1981-1984 20 Feb - 18 Mar, London, Museum of Mankind, Asante Kingdom of Gold
Exhibited:
2018, 15 Apr- 12 Aug, Dallas, USA, Dallas Museum of Art, The Power of Gold: Asante Gold Regalia from Ghana
2024, 1 May - 2027, 12 April, Kumasi, Ghana, Manhyia Palace Museum, Homecoming
- Condition
- Good.
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Anglo-Asante War 1873-4
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- Taken from Ghana during the Anglo-Asante war of 1873-4. Possibly formed part of the indemnity payment extracted from the Asantehene Kofi KariKari by the Crown Agents for the Colonies through the Treaty of Fomena in 1874. Alternatively may have been taken as personal loot by soldiers who fought in the 1873-4 war.
Purchased by the Museum from the goldsmiths/jewellers, Phillips Brothers & Son, in 1891, and according to the Register slip "Stated to have come from Abyssinia".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1891,0114.1
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: Af1973,Q.113 (previously registered as, in error)
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Other BM number: Af1974,Q.2928 (previously registered as, in error)
