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Conservation of Asante Textiles, Gold and Wood
What it takes to keep the objects: light and humidity for kente, handling for gilded wood, insects in tropical storage, and the collaborations between Ghanaian and Dutch conservators.
Read MoreGenealogy and Family History Across Ghana and the Netherlands
Practical routes for tracing Euro-African and Belanda Hitam descent: Elmina church registers, KNIL service records, Indonesian civil registration and the archives that hold them.
Read MoreMaps of the Gold Coast: Reading Cartography Critically
How Dutch and other European cartographers depicted the Gold Coast and its interior, what the blank spaces and confident borders really represent, and where to find the maps.
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