Dish with Asante soul-bearer's badge.
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Robert GARRARD (active mid 19th c - ): Commissioned by William Alleyne; Marquess of Exeter and aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. The soul-bearer's (or soul washer's) badge was collected in January 1874 by Sir Garnet Wolseley's expedition as part of the indemnity obtained from the Asantehene (king of the Asante) Kofi Kakari during the first Asante War of 1873.
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