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Title	QU-30.038: untitled
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Description	Note: Small selection from 206 pictures. "Generalagent" Wintz according to BM-files to Ghana: 1908, 1911, 1921, 1923, contract with UTC 1921 for min. 2 years; later travels? T.G. (17/8/93): Taken on a journey from Volta Region to Yendi. Probably between 1924 and 1928. A number of very interesting pictures could not be selected, e.g. - stool, prayer board (Yendi type), cache-sexe for woman (wood or leather), staff with special top used by "linguists" of the king of the Asante, who was in exile from 1896 to 1924. These staffs came into use only after 1924, palace architecture no longer existing, places for ancestor and other forms of worship in compounds, head-dress for persons of rank, adornment of horses. (Notes taken in conversation with T.G., 08.1993, BFN).; Note translation: According to BM-files "Generalagent" Wintz went to Ghana: 1908, 1911, 1921, 1923, under contract with UTC NB it was not possible to include all these images in the project (PJ 06.2002). Photographs taken on a journey from Volta Region to Yendi. Probably between 1924 and 1928. A number of very interesting pictures could not be selected, e.g. - stool, prayer board (Yendi type), cache-sexe for woman (wood or leather), staff with special top used by "linguists" of the king of the Asante, who was in exile from 1896 to 1924. These staffs came into use only after 1924, palace architecture no longer existing, places for ancestor and other forms of worship in compounds, head-dress for persons of rank, adornment of horses. (Notes taken in conversation with T.G., 08.1993, BFN).
Geographic subject (country)	Ghana {modern state}
Geographic subject (region)	Volta Region {modern region}
Coverage date	1924/1930
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1924/1930
Type	images
Format	206 prints, not mounted, chamoix (type of prints of the 1950ies).; 206 images; b/w positive, paper print
Legacy record ID	impa-m17857
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of series	mission 21 / Union Trading Company
Series reference number	QU-30.038
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Archival file	impa_Volume378/576.url

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