The Cult of the Kwahu Hunter on the Question of Sasa Animals, Especially the Elephant

Abstract

Since Capt. Rattray came to Kwahu, he has discovered that the people there are an off-shoot of the Beretuo Clan, and that they came from Ashanti Mampon and settled in their present district about 200 years ago. When Capt. Rattray told me tills, it explained to me the remarkable parallel, as well as the differences, between the hunting customs noted by him in Ashanti, and those observed in Kwahu ; a parallel that had hitherto seemed to me quite inexplicable.