Cleveland Museum of Art
Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
1800s, before 1871; pin added later
An 1886 letter indicates that the English doctor Harry T. Reilly received this disk as a gift from three Asante chiefs for providing them with medical care while they were imprisoned in Cape Coast Castle in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Ashanti war (1863-64).
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