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Conservation of Asante Textiles, Gold and Wood
Archives & Resources 5 min read
What it takes to keep the objects: light and humidity for kente, handling for gilded wood, insects in tropical storage,......
Genealogy and Family History Across Ghana and the Netherlands
Archives & Resources 5 min read
Practical routes for tracing Euro-African and Belanda Hitam descent: Elmina church registers, KNIL service records, Indo......
Maps of the Gold Coast: Reading Cartography Critically
Archives & Resources 5 min read
How Dutch and other European cartographers depicted the Gold Coast and its interior, what the blank spaces and confident......
A Reading List for Asante and Dutch Gold Coast History
Archives & Resources 5 min read
An annotated guide to the scholarship: Wilks and McCaskie on Asante, Yarak and Doortmont on the Dutch coast, Kea on the......
Provenance Research and the Repatriation Debate
Archives & Resources 5 min read
How provenance is established for Asante objects taken in 1874 and after, what Dutch colonial-collections policy now pro......
Digitised Sources for Asante–Dutch History
Archives & Resources 5 min read
What can be consulted from anywhere: Nationaal Archief scans, the Atlas of Mutual Heritage, Delpher newspapers, museum c......