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According to my files the flag of the Ashanti has several variations.
Sources are McMeekin [mee03] and the
Fachinger-collection [fcgXX] at the Museum
at Bremerhafen (DE).
Falko Schmidt, 16 Feb 2001
Yellow over black over green horizontal stripes with a yellow device
in the black stripe.
Falko Schmidt, 16 Feb 2001
Yellow over black over green horizontal stripes with small white
fimbrations between the stripes and a yellow throne-emblem in the
middle stripe.
Falko Schmidt, 16 Feb 2001
Flags used by uprises: yellow with a green-white-black horizontal
striped first quarter.
Falko Schmidt, 16 Feb 2001
Flags used by uprises: yellow with a green-white-black vertical
striped first quarter.
Falko Schmidt, 16 Feb 2001
According to Nations Without States
[mnh96], the flag of Ashanti national
movement is a horizontal tricolor of red, yellow,
green with a five-pointed white star in the upper hoist. I’m not
sure where the author obtained his information, but perhaps the flag is that
of some contemporary Ashanti political movement.
Ned Smith, 16 Feb 2001
In the Nationalmusset Copenhagen you can the a coloured
copperplate-engraving, showing the Ashantis yams-feast in September of
estimatd 1740-1745. It was a fairly bloody event, for the Ashanti-King
killed a slave, each time when an important person arrived, just to
honour the guest. The so called highlight was a mass-slaughter at the
end of the event.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2006
You can see in the engraving big red parasols, the Ashanti-kings used
instead of flags, as well as dutch, british and danish flags. There is
however an unknown flag partially hidden by white objects. I don’t
know, whether the flag is topped by a thin red pennant or not.
Two versions are possible: plain (excl. pennant) or
with stripes. (Source: Per EILSTRUP &
Nils Eric BOESGAARD Fjernt fra Danmark, Copenhagen
1974: p.112-113.)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2006
It is a plain black flag with a yellow cross a little bit thinner
than usual. In the lower hoist is a yellow
chevron.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2006
There are two thin stripes red over white over a black flag with a yellow
scandinavian cross a little bit thinner than usual.
In the lower hoist is a yellow chevron.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2006
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