Abstract: This paper is one in an ongoing series by the author that offers detailed discussion of important Asante cultural and historical artifacts that were looted by the British from Asante in 1874 and again in 1896. Like its peers, this paper is prompted by the currently widespread debate in the academy and the public sphere about the need to address the matter of the restitution of artifacts seized from peoples across the globe by the agents of European imperialism. However, this ongoing literature of restitution is all too often disfigured by a serious omission. Simply, it scants detailed cultural and historical analysis of the meanings of the artifacts for the peoples from whom they were stolen. Failure to do this, whether willed or not, perpetuates the colonial perception of the victims of European imperialism as being members of essentially ahistorical societies lacking cultural complexity and sustained interest in the remembrance and evaluation of their own past. This present paper, like others in the series, is aimed at redressing this still enduring oversight.