353 20 77964 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52a.III. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.52a - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52b.IV. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Denkra (Agona Area) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52b.V. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Ga-Adangme Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52b.VI Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Odumase Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52b.VII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Ada Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.I. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Akwapim-Akem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.II. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Aburi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.III. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Akropong Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.IV. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Begoro Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.02.1891 Proper date: 18.02.1891 Description An account of the resource Much of this report is published as an appendix to the 1891 Annual Report, pp 52ff. Additional material: Botoku, like Kpando, is pressing hard for a school. Summarising his assessment of the significance of development, Müller writes that this does not develops anywhere out of a longing to the truth, or quieten an inner unhappiness. But people often say that their children must learn something. Indeed they feel a need to know precisely the things they do not need - the outer characteristics of school training are what appeal to them. In the Anum area, 13 adults were baptised in Anum (including some wives of Christians) and 3 adults in Tsate. They have had a series of problems during the year – marriage conflicts (between partners), conflicts between families, and the restraining of an Anum Christian fail marrying a 14 year old daughter to a Boso man (the order of the community gives 16 as the minimum age for marriage). These were mostly settled, but in Boso one of the elders, indeed, the first in time, most gifted, and best known of them, was excluded from Communion and deprived of his office on account of his revealing himself as a betrayer of the Christians. Müller offers a rather disillusioned description of the Christians - they have inherited apathy and the phlegmatic character. For example, few of the awakened who were baptised as boys or youths and have learned to read, take trouble to read the scriptures for themselves in their mother tongue regularly. They have also few assistants who do not teach their baptismal candidates superficially, or who teach with a view to bringing them to the experience of spiritual power. Most teach the articles of faith, the Ten Commandments, the Lord as Prayer, and the Baptismal Declaration, by rote. There is no urge to explain among their assistants, nor an urge to know among their ordinary members. They do have an urge to pray - and after the prayer hours you can it be asked 'Master did you hear me pray? Was it right how I prayed’?' He wonders how this state of things could be bettered - have the people suffered too much under one kind of preaching or have they not been properly trained or is their childhood experience in their families, with its little intellectual stimulation responsible? Reporting on schools, he writes that all their schools in Anum and the north have to spend their first year teaching Twi. 6 boys from the Anum-Boso area are in Akropong, most supported by their families. Changes in local personnel have occurred - Mesak Gyadu died, and Herman Amaning is seriously ill in his home town. Benjamin Adae has started work as teacher in Ntwumuru. Gottfried Martin joined the ranks of missionaries on the station while Brother Lieb had to be repatriated very much weakened by yellow fever. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..145 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the Year 1890 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.01.1891 Proper date: 15.01.1891 Description An account of the resource Discussing Gyadu, Clerk writes that he was meek and lovable, though never properly loved and respected by the Anum community. Clerk offers as explanation for this the fact that he never quite got over his old weakness for drink, and when he had drunk too much his conversation led to strife. Müller adds in the margin that he also informed the missionaries about events in the community which it wanted to keep concealed. Discussing the call to Buem he reports that one complication is that the Buems want to be part of the English colony. Clerk seems sympathetic, he writes that it is questionable whether they could work as well as they do if Anum were in the German area, and although he is not certain, it may be that in 'German' Kpando the slave trade has revived. Much of the report is concerned with Akwamu (assigned to Clerk from the period of Martin's arrival), but he also writes at the end about the Anum community, which it seems has had a troubled year. Clerk writes in a disillusioned tone, about the Christian village being overgrown with weeds, and the houses in it not well built, in spite of the missionaries' efforts towards this. There had been trouble in the year over church tax, freewill offerings, and the Christians have just refused to pay school-tax. However, a number of Christians have given a good account of themselves on their death-beds. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..146 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for the Year 1890 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.01.1891 Proper date: 24.01.1891 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..147 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report for the Year 1890 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.02.1890 Proper date: 24.02.1890 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..138 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report on Travelling in Buem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.03.1890 Proper date: 15.03.1890 Description An account of the resource The paths towards Buem had been cleaned following a visit by the English officer, Mr Williams. On that account in the Sohae villages no men were to be met. By juxtaposition Clerk implies that the problem with getting the teacher's house in Vakpo built was that a fetish priestess in the town had great influence which he exerted against the chief. Teacher Tenkorang was in open conflict with her. He bought the salt for his expedition in Anvoi. In one of the Bume villages their preaching was translated into Ewe by a Sierra Leonian who had lived there for 13 years. In that village they answered Clerks question as to whether they wanted to be Christians by saying that they would if the king recommended them to - to which the missionary party replied that they were calling them to serve a greater king: also that they knew very well that their king wanted them to stay heathen, and the mission party argued that that was so that he could extort money from them when he wanted to. In Wurupon the theme of their preaching was their disappointment that no-one had come forward onto the catechumenate. In many Nkonya villages there were few people because the village was busily collecting rubber. In the first Buem village (on the Konsu, not named), he was taken for an official of the colonial government, to the extent that he had difficulty not being made to pass judgement in a case. Clerk remarks that quite often educated Africans, who are fugitives from justice on the coast perhaps, masquerade as law officers. Recently in Akabu several Sierra Leonians stopped a man being put to the Ordeal, and fined the people £4 for making the attempt. Over Buem Clerk repeats the remark that the people are industrious farmers, just like farmers in Europe. In the Bowiri district (Amanfro with 200 inhabitants, Anyinase with 100 inhabitants, and Kyiriahi 80 inhabitants), Clerk was welcomed and the people not only asked for a teacher, but promised to supply him with a house, and after careful deliberations promised to send 10 boys to school. Clerk remarks that this is probably because of the influence of two Christians from this town, one Immanuel Akwa was now really based on Mamfe (where he had been baptised) but visited Bowiri frequently - the other was a Methodist baptised in Accra, but a 'quiet and earnest man'. From Bowiri he visited Odome (300 inhabitants) and Apafo (500 inhabitants). In the latter he seems to have taken the initiative in asking if they wanted a teacher (indeed he remarks in his account of his visit to Borada that this was his usual question on this journey) - the answer was fully in the affirmative (He says nothing about the iron working). The people's first reaction in Apafo was to ask for liquor and Clerk reports that liquor and gunpowder are very easy to obtain in the inland parts - they are brought in from Bagida, and cost less than they do in Accra. Also it seems that a messenger had come to Anum from Gyasekan-Kuma asking for a teacher, and there may have been separate messengers from Borada and Bowiri also. He visited the nearby villages of Atonko and Aka. In the latter was, a Christian who had been baptised in Akwapim and was remaining true to his belief, only waiting for the day when mission staff would settle among his own people. His wife, unfortunately, had relapsed into heathenism. The reception in Gyasekan-Kuma was less friendly, part of the trouble being a man who had been baptised in Akim, and. who was now lapsed, and talked about the financial exactions of the minion (Clerk was also making a point of Teaching people Christian hymns, which they seemed to appreciate). Clerk remarks that the slave trade is still carried on in Buem, describing a harrowing case involving the selling of a middle-aged woman from one 'husband' to another. Visiting Kugye Clerk discovered that the people remembered the names Adam and Jesu from an earlier preaching visit. In Worawora Clerk sensed that the invitation to the Mission to come to that town was not wholehearted, and that the people there are more given to fetish worship than in the other towns. Nevertheless many people are enthusiastic for their coming. There was a young man, who had attended a Methodist School in Cape Coast for a time and had since never worshipped a fetish. In Tribu-Boso food is dear to buy - partly on account of the relative unfruitfulness of the soil, partly because of the demands of the rubber carriers. Clerk gives the village the fetish priest who ruled over Pusupu and Bontebo as Obosomfookurom. He remarks that in many places in Obooso the chief and the fetish priest are one and the same person, and 'you can easily see in what lamentable circumstances the people must live'. The population in the Tribu country he estimates at 400. He puts the political geography of the area definitely and concisely - the capital of Tribu-Boso is Tetekple, and itself is under the priest-chief of Dadease ‘in Adele'. However, he names another Obosomfookuram --in Adele, and with the alternative name Kpanko. In Kpelewu the chief is a female fetish priest. Konton he describes as an ex-robber and now a man of great girth, living at the foot of the hills beneath the German settlement at Adele. In Kpelewe they preached on the Fall, the preparation for salvation in the Old Testament, and completion of salvation in the New. Clerk's version of the priestesses reaction to their message was that she wanted them to stay for three days so that she could call together her elders and they could decide whether to accept this teaching or not (the paragraph is constructed in such a way that it is implied that the ‘teaching’ included doubts about the sanctity of the priestess and her fetish, as well as ethical questions concerned with the Odum ordeal, slavery, and the carrying of corpses). Clerk gives one town on the route from Dadease to Salaga - Korantae (2 hours from Dadease). In Nyamo they met two youths from Kakyenkye in Adele who were en route for Salaga - the two parties joined forces. On Salaga market Clark remarks that the wares produced in the interior are costly, while those brought in from the coast are cheap. In Pami the king and elders had not the slightest interest in their preaching. From Salaga they spent the night in Krupi. Kete he describes as a Mohammedan town. They met some Akropong people there, and lodged with them. In Tutunya he and the teacher interfered in a case following a death in which it was being said that the fetish had killed a man. They argued that if this were the case it should be taken before the English court, but Clerk in Buem took no steps to intervene in a situation where someone was going to be submitted to the poison ordeal. As an appendix is a list of the numbers one to ten in the three Buem languages spoken in Borada, Bowiri and Apafo. He also gives the name for 'God' in the three as respectively Atubruku, Odeto, Ba. The Kwahu-Dukomane he found spoke Twi. Tribu-Boso and Adele spoke the same language, which he thought was a separate language not akin to Guan. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..129-130 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report on a Journey in Buem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.04.1890 Proper date: 06.04.1890 Description An account of the resource The reports from Hall and Clark have the No. 129-130 and 138. He remarks over Clerk's report that a younger brother's remarks have to be taken carefully, .especially in reference to the Volta people who face strangers with distrust. Putting 5 workers in Buem as Clerk asks is in any case not possible, since there is a shortage of staff generally. The interest in schools in Buem follows from the frequency with which Buem youths visit the coast (Accra and Fante), see school carried on, and want to learn the wisdom of the Europeans. He adjudges, in any case, that the people of the area are not ready for the gospel, citing their general acceptance of the past poison ordeal - but equally that they may be eager for help to help them out of their miserable condition. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..131 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Comment to the Hall and Clerk Reports on their Journey Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.05.1890 Proper date: 06.05.1890 Description An account of the resource The report is printed in full as an annex to the 1891 Annual Report, pp86f. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..139 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the First Quarter of 1890 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.08.1890 Proper date: 07.08.1890 Description An account of the resource The report is mostly printed in Heidenbote 1891 ppl0ff. It concerns the completing of the the new Anum Mission House. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..142 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the Second Quarter of 1890 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.08.1890 Proper date: 07.08.1890 Description An account of the resource The report concerns conversions in Nkonya, travels in Nkonya and Kpandu, including a reference to the Adda trader settlement near Nkami. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..141 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.10.1890 Proper date: 29.10.1890 Description An account of the resource The report is concerned with the Yam Festival in Anum. 10 varieties of yams are known, that favoured most by the Anum people is called Akoako, and the people plant 500-2,500 according to their means. He describes the cultivation and that there is an insect which the people consciously keep off the yams, since it damages them. The people allowed to eat yams before everyone else in Anum are the smiths. Clerk judges that this is because the people need the tools for their farming. The smiths' fetish is called Tschawe - you can usually see it hanging up in the smithy, and it consists of palm twigs, the local tortoise, limbs from offered animals, and so on. Tschawe eats yams on a Thursday, after they have been cooked and beaten up not to fufu, but finely enough to be sieved. Then oil is poured on, and the yam is sprinkled around the smithy, while Tschawe is thanked for having given new yams and they call him to eat some. Then all the tools are put into water, into which some holy leaves have been put. Then a sheep destined for this festival is slaughtered, and the blood poured into this water. The sheep is then cooked in the chief smith's house, where all the smiths gather to eat the new yams as a body. When the food is ready, they smear themselves with white earth as a sign of joy. Eight days later the smiths meet again, and the tools are bathed in the blood of a white hen, while the smiths themselves eat the hen cooked with new yams. Clerk notes that there is a sort of religious brotherhoad of smiths. If one of them dies, no more work is done until they perform a certain ceremony together. In a lonely place called Anyaso they take a sheep, sacrifice it, and eat it. The bones are put into a new pot and buried - in this way they call the fetish to spare them a further death. Concerning the festivals which follow those of the smiths, Dodi celebrates its yam festival 8 days after the smiths. The fetish Abuko - he is the one who hates Twi - plays the leading role in it. Clerk notes that at the beginning of 1890 Dodi was burned down, inter al the Abuko house was burned down also. He became angry and has fled to Anum until the Dodi people come to fetch him back. The Boso people celebrate their festival about two weeks later, and then the priests and priestesses of Anum begin to celebrate their festival. This is especially the fest of the fetish Kpedsche, whose priestess is .the old, rich, and friendly Asieya. He is carried through the town in a great procession and with much noise - in earlier years there was wild dancing as well, but they do that no more. The gospel is not unknown to her also, for many messengers of truth have visited her. Clerk's invitation to her to attend one of their services have not succeeded, but she is friendly and has visited him three times. Several days after that is the festival of the fetishes Buwule and Mfodwo, who both have a priestess. After that are the festivals of Afram, Mante, Okpei, Sakum, and others, all with their appropriate time. The elders of the town can eat (new yams presumably), at any time'when they have got their sheep. Clerk adds that by elder he means a man who sits on a family stool. There are ten such in Anum, to several of which in earlier years human sacrifices were made. The king's yam festival is the greatest, and lasts two days - a Thursday and a Friday. Altogether 9 sheep are sacrificed. The first day is devoted to the drummers and the king's wives - each group gets a sheep, and so do the elders and the foreigners. Afterwards there is dancing on the streets. On the Friday the king's two stools are bathed and sprinkled with blood, the king sprinkles mashed yams on them, and eats some himself. When he has slaughtered a sheep and presented it to his people, then he eats new yams. In the afternoon there is dancing, the king himself dances at about 5 p.m., and sits with his people to drink palm wine. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..144 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Quarter's Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.02.1891 Proper date: 06.02.1891 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is printed as annex to the 1891 Annual Report, pp49f and 51f. Additional material: Personnel changes. Tschopp and Weber both left the station, and Haasis arrived. Catechist Kutabi was posted to Akpamim, Catechist Ntow was posted to Abetifi, and Catechist Boateng was assigned to Asante Akim though for family reasons, at the end of 1890 he was settled at Bepong. Teacher Kofi was dismissed – he seemed to have lest all desire to work after the death of his wife. Bepong was without a resident agent as a result. And Catechist Okyere was transferred from Mampong to Mpraeso. In the Abetifi community people of both sexes have been baptised, there are older men and women among them too. A number of catechumens have had their baptisms postponed, on account of their not seeming decided. He remarks that he has to constantly supervise the Christians when it comes to questions of custom and their employment. All the Christians - except one - are now on the station (the exception being an old lady) and Ramseyer clearly feels that the Christian village is now becoming something of an example - several of the houses have shingle roofs, and the heathens are proud of the place, as well as the Christians. He talks of difficulties nevertheless - he especially feels that there is too much noise, and indeed at their Saturday night conferences the community are continually breaking out into a noise which sounds like a serious quarrel, though it is in fact only a discussion. There were also 3 exclusions during the course of the year, apparently on account of sexual irregularities. A large number of the Christians were absent in the course of the year on the India-rubber trade, some of them earned some money thereby too. Ramseyer says this made him anxious, but he did not omit to warn people and on the whole he is content that they heeded his warninqs, and the only harm to the individuals involved was their missing of the blessings of attending services. Reporting on the outstations - remarking on the change of catechists in Mpraeso Ramseyer recalls Catechist Kwabi's attempts to draw people to him by lending them money as failures. In Obo 2 adults were baptised, and the school though small pleases Ramseyer. He repeats that the great difficulty is that the Obos spend several months a year on their farms. Nkwatia, one exclusion, Jonas Dako, who on returning from Krobo after a several month absence found his wife, who had just borne a child, on her death-bed. He made custom for her in the heathen manner – and then asked the missionaries for forgiveness. Asakraka is proving hard ground - few children for the school, two catechumens, one of whom suffered a stroke and had to be taken to his relatives in Nkwatia, the other only doubtfully serious. Pepease is going ahead slowly, partly because the chief takes exception to his subjects becoming Christians and has a reputation for exacting heavy fines. Ramseyer has warned him about his attitude more than once. In Aduammoa they failed to buy land on account of the political unquiet - the pretender and his uncle were residents of Aduammoa. Kwabi had apparently been resident for a time in Asante Akim, and removed from there on account of his posting. Boateng's main problem seems to have been that he had four small children, and Ramseyer wishes that he could send two people to settle in Asante Akim and relieve the loneliness thereby. One point he mentions is that in Bepong and Mpraeso the Christians were re-roofing some houses at least with shingles. Another point is that there is an unusually large amount of the discussion of the relative merits of different catechists and teachers. The following characteristics - desirable, or lacking, are mentioned - one is taciturn and quiet -this is not an appropriate characteristic, another is sui generis and not without a certain stinginess. Ramseyer is always warning the latter to get into closer touch with the people among whom he is working. Finally, as he was writing the report, DC Turton arrived with a party of Hausas to arrange the Kwahu stool dispute. The Abetifihene has been fined £32 and a peace settlement made. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.V..126 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1890