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Travels and life in Ashanti and Jaman (1898)

Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin) 1862-1943. author · Westminster A. Constable and Company · leaf 428

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400 TRAVELS AND LIFE IN ASHANTI AND JAMAN have been quite opaque and porcellaneous, of various colours, plain or variegated, and of different shapes, spherical, ovate, oblong, etc. But although to the European there seems no means of distinguishing the genuine bead from any others, the natives, or… … HAIR DIVIDED INTO FOUR HAIR COMBED OVER PADS. PORTIONS. accuracy. An enterprising Birmingham firm, I was told, once obtained a number of Aggri beads and manufactured a quantity of imitations which were so excellent that Euro- pean experts were quite unable to distinguish them from the original…

Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin) 1862-1943 -- Travel -- Africa · Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin) 1862-1943 · Ashanti (African people) -- Social life and customs · Travel · Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Description and travel · Ghana -- Description and travel · Ghana -- History · Jaman, Africa -- Description and travel · Africa -- Ashanti (Kingdom) · Africa · Ghana

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