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Clay figures used in funeral ceremonies.

Book/Text

Accra, Ghana Museum and Monument Board [196-?]

1960-1969

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 78-39Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Mortuary usages of the Gã people of the Gold Coast, by Ako Adjei.

Book/Text

[n.p., 1943]

1943

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 393-A (Adjei, A. Mortuary usages...)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Death, property and the ancestors; a study of the mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa.

Book/Text

Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, [c1962]

1962

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 393-G (Goody, J. Death, property and the ancestors)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberE-11 5690Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Death, property and the ancestors : a study of the mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa / Jack Goody.

Book/Text

London : Tavistock Publications, c1962.

1962

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 393-G (Goody, J. Death, property and the ancestors)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Funeral dirges of the Akan people / J. H. Nketia.

Book/Text

Exeter : Achimota, 1955.

1955

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 896.4-N (Nketia, J. Funeral dirges of the Akan people)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberC-10 257Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Going into darkness : fantastic coffins from Africa / text and photographs by Thierry Secretan ; [translated from the French by Ruth Sharma].

Book/Text

London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 95-43Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Ghanaian funeral : eight photo essays / Akuamoah Boateng ... [et al.]

Book/Text

Accra, Ghana : Cordula Flegel, c1996.

1996

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 97-415Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A Great tree has fallen [motion picture] / Robert Lang Productions.

VHS

Bloomington : Indiana University, 1973.

1973

2 items

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-274Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual MPB-209Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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The last journey of Otumfuo Opoku Ware II / [compiled by Y.B. Amoatin ; editors/writers, A.A. Amoako, Collins K. Edusei, B. Owusu Srapong].

Book/Text

Kurofrom-Kumasi [Ghana] : Bayoba Graphics Limited, [1999?]

1999

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 02-1804Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The king has gone to the village / edited by George P. Hagan, Irene K. Odotei.

Book/Text

Legon, Ghana : Insitute of African Studies, University of Ghana, c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 04-453Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Long live the dead! : changing funeral celebrations in Asante, Ghana / Marleen De Witte.

Book/Text

Amsterdam : Aksant Academic Publishers, 2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 05-253Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Die vergrabenen Schätze der Ga : Sarg-Kunst aus Ghana / Regula Tschumi.

Book/Text

Bern : Benteli, c2006.

2006

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberReCAP 08-5911Item locationOffsite
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Funeral fashion in Ghana / Lisa Meier and Irene Odotei.

Book/Text

Zurich : Edition Patrick Frey, c2013.

2013

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 14-416Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Terrakottaföremål från Ghana på British Museum : materiella och immateriella assemblage / Mari Granath Lagercrantz.

Book/Text

Uppsala, Sweden : Uppsala Universitet, [2018]

2018-2018

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberReCAP 19-2659Item locationOffsite

Rest in plastic : death, time and synthetic materials in a Ghanaian Ewe community / Isabel Bredenbröker.

Book/Text

New York : Berghahn Books, 2024.

2024-2024

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberReCAP 24-3154Item locationOffsite

Terrakottaföremål från Ghana på British Museum : materiella och immateriella assemblage / Mari Granath Lagercrantz.

Book/Text

Uppsala, Sweden : Uppsala Universitet, [2018]

2018-2018

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberNB1099.G5 G73 2018gItem locationOff-site

Il fait sombre, va-t'en : cercueils au Ghana / texte et photographies de Thierry Secretan.

Book/Text

[Paris] : Hazan, [1994], ©1994.

1994-1994

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGT3289.G47 S43 1994Item locationOff-site

Going into darkness : fantastic coffins from Africa / text and photographs by Thierry Secretan.

Book/Text

London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberNB1097 G34 Se25Item locationOff-site

Death, property and the ancestors ; a study of the mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa.

Book/Text

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1962.

1962

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number302.966 G62Item locationOff-site

The last journey of Otumfuo Opoku Ware II / [compiled by Y.B. Amoatin ; editors/writers, A.A. Amoako, Collins K. Edusei, B. Owusu Srapong].

Book/Text

Kurofrom-Kumasi, [Ghana] : Bayoba Graphics Limited, [1999?]

1999

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberDT507 .L37 1999gItem locationOff-site

The king has gone to the village / edited by George P. Hagan, Irene K. Odotei.

Book/Text

2001

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberDT512.9.A84 K56 2001Item locationOff-site

Long live the dead! : changing funeral celebrations in Asante, Ghana / Marleen De Witte.

Book/Text

Amsterdam : Aksant Academic Publishers, 2001.

2001

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGT3289.G47 D4 2001Item locationOff-site

Die Leiter des Todes : Bestattungen in Süd-Ghana seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts / Christoph Langer.

Book/Text

Leipzig : [Universität Leipzig, Institut für Afrikanistik], 2004.

2004

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGN486 .L36 2004Item locationOff-site

Going into darkness : fantastic coffins from Africa / text and photographs by Thierry Secretan.

Book/Text

London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGT3289.G47 S42713 1995q OversizeItem locationOff-site

Death, property and the ancestors; a study of the mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa.

Book/Text

Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1962.

1962

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberGN486.G63Item locationOff-site

The "place of the pots" in Akan funerary custom / by James O. Bellis.

Book/Text

[Bloomington] : African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1982.

1982

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberDT510.43.A53 B44Item locationOff-site

Funeral fashion in Ghana / Lisa Meier and Irene Odotei.

Book/Text

Zurich : Edition Patrick Frey, c2013.

2013

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGT1589.G4 M45 2013Item locationOff-site