Akan Drum
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The Akan Drum is a drum that was made in West Africa and was later found in the Colony of Virginia in North America. It is now one of the oldest African-American objects in the British Museum and poss
On display in the British Museum
The Old Plantation, ca. 1785–1795. Late 18th-century watercolour showing enslaved people dancing, with a banjo and drum, on a South Carolina plantation.
Chief of Abetifi's orchestra, c.1890, showing a similar drum
Asante people
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The Asante, also known as Ashanti in English, are part of the Akan ethnic group and are native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. Asantes are the last group to emerge out of the various Akan c
Akan Drum
…that this was why the drum was transported. The word Akan refers to the culture in what is today Ghana and includes the Akwamu, Bono, Akyem, Fante, Asante and Akuapem people. This particular drum was obtained in Virginia by the Rev. Clerk on behalf of the Anglo-Irish scientist Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane had…
Asante Frankaa
Akan dancers in Ghana
Asante yam ceremony, 19th century by Thomas Edward Bowdich
Akwasidae Celebration in Manhyia Palace in 2009