M0006152: Portrait of Yaa Naa Abdulai II (d. 1938)
- Date:
- 19 March 1939
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/51/51
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
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.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request