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Native portraits, Gold Coast, Accra, Africa, 1870s-80s

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Native portraits, Gold Coast, Accra, Africa, 1870s-80s
Forty albumen prints, each approx. 5½ x 4 in. or the reverse, mounted four or six-per-page, numbered in ink and titled in pencil on album leaves, unbound. (40)

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Including several group portraits of the inhabitants of Trampram; costume studies of men and women in traditional dress of woven cloths and beaded jewellery; a portrait of a man seated with two large animal horns at his feet; two studies of a man wearing a top hat; and a few portraits of women and children.

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