The Fowler Museum in L.A. Repatriates Seven Asante Treasures to Ghana
The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, has repatriated seven royal artifacts to Ghana.
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Ghana's Ashanti king receives looted royal artefacts from US museum
A California museum on Thursday returned seven royal artefacts to Ghana’s traditional Ashanti king to commemorate his silver jubilee in the first planned handovers of Ashanti treasures looted during colonial times. The move follows recent announcements by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to lend gold and silver treasures looted from the Asante kingdom back to Ghana in a six-year deal.
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Fowler Museum at UCLA returns cultural artifacts to Ghana taken by British forces in 1800s
The returned objects include gold jewelry, an elephant tail whisk and an ornamental chair originally taken from the Asante Kingdom by British forces during a 19th-century conflict.
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Museum officials traveled to the city of Kumasi to return the objects on the 150th anniversary of their seizure
Source: smithsonianmag.com