3-056-376 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War on the Gold Coast: a bush woman, 1873. Mother carrying her child in a baby wrap, balancing a pot on her head. Engraving 'copied from photographs lent us by Mr. James Irvine, F.R.G.S., of Birkenhead. He got them in 1869, at Cape Coast Castle, from the photographer there, who is a native of Sierre Leone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.