IDNO

LS.125578.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Gold Coast.
Ashanti - Chief of Oboming, Okwahi (?) seated, in group."

Place

W Africa; Ghana; Obomeng [Oboming]

Cultural Affliation

Ashanti

Named Person

Photographer

Ramseyer, Friedrich August Louis (Mr)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1888 - 1895

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image held at Basel Mission Archives, reference QD-30.042.0041, with the following information:
"The indigenous chief of Obomeng."
Creator: Name: Ramseyer, Friedrich August Louis (Mr)
Basel Mission membership number: 0627
Date of birth: 07.10.1840
Date of death: 06.08.1914
Biography: Ramseyer went to Ghana as a builder and was ordained there in 1875. From 1869 to 1874 he was held captured by the Asante together with J. Kühne. In August 1905 he went on a journey to New York and returned in June 1906.
Profession: builder (Baumeister)
Basel Mission: from 1861
Date: 01.01.1888-31.12.1895
Place: Ghana: Abetifi: Obomeng. [Source: http://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/71428, JD 14/8/2013]