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McInnes and Fraser (1987:66).

50
Ibid., 73.

51
Burleigh (1896:551).

52
Gold Coast Chronicle, 30 June 1896, 3.

53
Wilks (1975:661).

54
Tordoff ( 1965:69).

55
Aidoo (1975:II, 642 ff).

56
Gold Coast Chronicle, May 1897, 3-4.

57
Aidoo (1975:II, 662).

58
Wilks (1975).

59
Aidoo (1975:II, 663).

60
Freeman (1898).

61
Parliamentary Debates
, House of Commons, Committee of Supply, 18 March 1901.

62
The assertion that the Golden Stool was never sat on comes from a single informant of Rattray.
Other informants have said that kings did sit on it during special ceremonies but never routinely.
Kimble (1963:321).

63
Aidoo (1975:II).

64
Ibid., 661.

65
Lewin (1978:189).

66
Aidoo (1975:II, 668).

67
Ibid., 669.

1
Willcocks (1904:278).

2
Ibid., 243.

3
Steiner (1901).

4
Armitage (1901:33).

5
Biss (1901:196).

6
Claridge (1915:II, 515-517).

7
Biss (1901:137).

8
Myatt (1966:91).

9
Claridge (1915:II, 494).

10
Myatt (1966:85).

11
Myatt (1966:86).

12
Steiner (1901:177).

13
Armitage and Montanaro (1901:102).

14
Hodgson (1901:203).

15
Aidoo (1975:11).

16
Claridge (1915:II, 507).

17
Willcocks (1904:278).

18
Ibid., 295-296.

19
Myatt (1966:99).

20
Hall (1939).

21
Willcocks (1904:318).

22
Ibid.

23
Ibid., 333.

24
Ibid., 336.

25
Ibid., 339.

26
Ibid., 341.

27
Biss (1901:189-90).

28
Willcocks (1904:342).

29
Fuller (1921:208).

30
Myatt (1966:127).

1
Armitage and Montanaro (1901:156).

2
Willcocks (1904:372).

3
Biss (1901:223).

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid., 225; Hall (1939:297).

6
Hall (1939:307).

7
Biss (1901:254).

8
Ibid., 255.

9
Ibid., 259.

10
Willcocks (1904:369).

11
Rattray (1929).

12
Biss (1901:267).

13
Armitage and Montanaro (1901:178).

14
Myatt (1966:157).

15
Willcocks (1904:395).

16
Biss (1901:299-300).

17
Willcocks (1904:402).

18
Ibid., 404.

19
Claridge (1915:II, 563).

20
Armitage and Montanaro (1901:206).

21
Ibid., 210.

22
Biss (1901:289).

23
Willcocks (1904:416).

24
Claridge (1915:II, 565).

25
Ibid., 566.

26
Biss (1901:314).

27
Ward (1958:343).

28
Boahen (1987:155).

29
Tordoff (1965:185).

30
Ibid., 237.

31
Ibid., 344.

1
Rattray (1929:124).

2
Moran (1950).

3
Busia (1951).

4
Barnett (1970:245).

5
Lewin (1978).

6
Ward (1958:267).

7
Maier(1987).

8
Brooks (1961).

9
Thomas (1975).

10
Lefever (1970:41).

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