Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana
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Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Repatriation news Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana The Fowler Museum at UCLA has repatriated seven artefacts that were taken during the Sagrenti War of 1874 Scarlet Cheng 5 February 2024 Share Unidentified member(s) of gold workers' guild (Asante peoples, Kumasi, Ghana), Royal necklace (gorget) or stool ornament; Before 1874; gold Fowler Museum at UCLA, Gift of the Wellcome Trust Seven handcrafted Asante objects have just travelled halfway around the globe to be returned, 150 years later, to the family of their original owners in Kumasi, Ghana. On Monday (5 February) they were formally handed over by representatives of the Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), to the Asante royal family. These objects, including pieces of elaborately worked gold, had been stolen or extorted from the Asante by the British during the Sagrenti War in 1874, a fact revealed when the museum undertook a sweeping look into the provenance of its African art collection.