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Title
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The Ashantee War:--"Special Service"
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Date (Painted or Exhibited)
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1874
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Catalog Number
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5
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Catalog Description
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Officers were sent to all the tribes of the protectorate to raise men, collect carriers, and try and rouse our so-called "native allies" to action. As a rule they were well received, and everything was promised, though nothing was done. This sketch represents the arrival of English officers at a village on the Amissa, which river was crossed in a canoe made of the hollowed trunk of a tree.
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Alt-Text
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A group of people sit in a wooden canoe on a river, while others walk along a dirt path through grassy vegetation toward a village with huts in the background. The painting has a worn, aged border.
