Fowler Museum hands seven royal objects back to the Asante kingdom
Representatives of UCLA’s Fowler Museum handed seven royal objects to Asante king Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in Kumasi. The museum traced four of them to the 1874 looting of the city by British colonial troops. The permanent return included an ornamental chair, a necklace or stool ornament, and an elephant-tail whisk.
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