Harry Allison

Career Ruler

Biography Very little information is available about this man except that he was titled 'Chief', probably given a European name at his baptism and christening when converted to Christianity, as was common at the time.' [Rachael Sparks, further information in RDF] He was head of the Allison house 1888 - 1894 [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/11/2006]

Biography References http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-5413%281989%2916%3C185%3AIWSFTH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L / http://www.jstor.org/view/03615413/sp040016/04x0322j/0, Indigenous written sources for the History of Bonny: Susan M. Hargreaves in History in Africa

County Unknown

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography[Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/11/2006]Ethnography

Collected around 1888

Dates active Unknown, active 1888

Donated around 1902

Owned By 1888

English collections One of the people from whom the two animal figures were obtained that William Allan and Dandeson Coates Crowther [qv] were connected with

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Dandeson Coates Crowther / William Allan