M0006152: Portrait of Yaa Naa Abdulai II (d. 1938)

Date:: 19 March 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/51/51

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0006102-M0006217WT/D/1/20/1/51
        M0006152: Portrait of Yaa Naa Abdulai II (d. 1938)WT/D/1/20/1/51/51

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M0006152: Portrait of Yaa Naa Abdulai II (d. 1938). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Illustration of Abdulai II, Na of Yendi, wearing amulets.

Description

Reproduction of a Photograph of Yaa Naa Abdulai II, ruler of the kingdom of Dagbon, northern Ghana from 1917-1938. The reproduction is published in Rattray, Robert Sutherland: The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland, Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1932]. It was published to illustrate the amulets worn by Abdulai II.

Publication/Creation

19 March 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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