Ejura (inhabited place)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Car in the compound of the Rest House, 1938 - 1939
85 x 60 mm.
Looking south from Ejura - Nkoranza road. Savannah woodland in foreground: high forest beyond U48 2.2, 1938 - 1947
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Rattray's ‘Castle’, 1938
85 x 60 mm. Possibly the house of Robert Sutherland Rattray, who served in the Gold Coast from 1906 to 1930, the last nine years as Head of the Anthropological Department of Ashanti. He wrote numerous books on Ashanti and was killed in a glider crash on 14 May 1938.
Rest House, 1938 - 1939
85 x 60 mm.
View over savannah woodland near Ejura, Ashanti, 1947
The caption continues: 'Looking west September 47. With Cussonia sp., Terminalia spp. Daniellia oliveri, Khaya senegalensis, Lophira procera, Butyrospermum parkii esp ar.' Swaine provides the note: 'Butyrospermum now called Vitellaria paradoxa.'