Abuabu Cross

The Abuabu Cross was moulded in 1928 with a Kwa-Kwa-AnaMuah shell (3.9 Cuttlefish bone casting, pg. 163)[1] and ‘smithed’ in unburnished gold by a craftsman of Abuabusu village in the Ofin River Valley of Denchera. Western Province of the Gold Coast colony from an original cross belonging to the Rt. Rev. John Aglionby, 3rd Bishop of Accra (16 March 1884 – 15 May 1963) from 1924 to 1951.[2] Upon his death, his sister Mary Aglionby passed the Abuabu Cross of her brother to Ambassador John Banks Elliott who had lived under the guardianship of the Bishop while attending the Bishops Boys School in Accra.

The Abuabu Cross moulded in 1928 with an Kwa-Kwa-AnaMuah shell and ‘smithed’ in unburnished gold by a craftsman of Abuabusu village in the Offin River Valley of Denchera

The Abuabu Cross has since become a family heirloom of the Elliott family.