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A good specimen of a Borgya shrine, showing the erection of skulls, on left and right, with the stone cairn, and part of the circular hedge cut down in the foreground. - Tano-Dumase in Ashanti.
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Source Arthur Ffoulkes, "Borgya and Abirwa; or the latest fetish on the Gold Coast", In: Journal of the African Society, vol. 8, 1908/1909, pp. 387-397
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  • Arthur Ffoulkes was justice of the British colonial administration of the Gold Coast in the first years of the 20th century.

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