Ashanti Chief's Court - Linguist

Carved wooden sculpture of a man with short hair, sitting on a chair, wearing a shawl and sandals and holding a separately carved staff with an elephant at the top. The staff would be covered in gold. Part of a group of wood carvings cut out of Sese wood, representing the Head Chief of an Ashanti territorial division and his immediate entourage. Encased in a special wood box. Part of a group of wood carvings representing the Head Chief of an Ashanti territorial division and his immediate entourage. Encased in a special wood box. Carved by the leading carver of Achimota, Gold Coast, Africa, from Sese woodand presented to FDR on June 29, 1943, by the His Excellency, Rt. Hon. The Viscount Swinton, Resident Minister for West Africa, Accra, Gold Coast as a souvenir of the Casablanca Conference. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1944.32.1.3.