Kumasi, Ghana: a mother holding a child with unshaved hair; a group stands in the background. Photograph, 1920/1940 (?).

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1920-1940
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580032i
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Kumasi, Ghana: a mother holding a child with unshaved hair; a group stands in the background. Photograph, 1920/1940 (?). Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1920-1940

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 13.8 x 9.7 cm

Lettering

Gold Coast, Kumasi. Ashanti mother and child. The small girl has not got her head shaved, because the mother want[s] her to look ugly, so that the evil spirits may not want her and kill her. Another daughter, very beautiful, died recently Lettering: handwritten in pencil on photograph verso

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Wellcome Collection 580032i

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