Interior of Banda rockshelter, 1994

Interior of the Banda rockshelter (sdekpͻͻ in Nafaanra). Its floor is covered with large boulders which sheared from the shelter's roof over time. Banda oral histories refer to this as the cave in which people hid during Asante's attacks on Banda in the 1700s. These stories may relate to Asantehene Osei Kwadwo's campaign against Banda during the dry season of 1773-74. After this, in February 1774, Dutch officials at Elmina Castle reported purchasing captives from Asante's war against "Benda." Banda hills, 30 July, 1994.

Creator

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Subject

• Captives
• Wars
• Caves
• Slave trade
• Elmina Castle (Elmina, Ghana)

Publisher

• University of Victoria Libraries

Identifier

• 32

Keyword

• Rockshelter

Date created

• 1994-07-30

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Geographic coverage

• Banda

Coordinates

• 8.179543, -2.371213

Provider

• Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Genre

• 35 mm slide

Date digitized

• 2016

Technical note

• Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Year

• 1994

Permalink

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