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↑ Up one levelWooden walking stick with chameleon handle
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Reference code
GB 891 RB-RB/6-RB/6/2
Publication status
Published
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Extent and medium
1 item
Date(s)
- 1863 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Repository
Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
Wooden walking stick with chameleon handle with silver collar bearing the inscription “From the King of Dahomey to Captain R Burton 1863.” This was presumably Gelele, King of Dahomey, (acc. 1858, dep. 1894). Burton’s mission to him in this year is described in "A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (now Republic of Benin), with notices of the so-called “Amazons”, the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade and the Negro's Place in Nature" by Richard F. Burton.
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Language of material
- English
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