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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Robert Sutherland
| name = Rattray
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Rattray,_Robert_Sutherland.jpg
| birth_date = 1881
| death_date = 1938
| address = Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; HMC, Accra, Gold Coast [1907]<br />Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; District Supervisor, Kratchi, Ashanti [1909]<br />101 Piccadilly, W.; Asst District Commissioner, Ashanti [1913]<br />101 Piccadilly, W.; Political Officer, Misahohe, Togoland, via Lome, West Africa [1915]
| occupation = academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1931-32 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Sutherland Rattray, CBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938) was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights<br />Rattray was born in India of Scottish parents. In 1906 he joined the Gold Coast Customs Service. In 1911 he became the assistant District Commissioner at Ejura. Learning local languages, he was appointed head of the Anthropological Department of Asante in 1921. He retired in 1930. He was killed while flying a glider in 1938<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Vernon Blake, "The · Aesthetic of Ashanti".<br />· Ashanti · Proverbs: the primitive ethics of a savage people: translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes, 1916 (repub. 1969). With a preface by · Sir Hugh Clifford. <br />· Ashanti, 1923. <br />· (ed.) Religion and Art in Ashanti, Oxford University Press, 1927. <br />· · Ashanti Law and Constitution, 1929. <br />· Akan-Ashanti · Folk-Tales. Collected and translated by ... R. S. Rattray ... and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony, 1930. <br />· The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2 vols., 1932<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
MSS, photos
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Robert Sutherland
| name = Rattray
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Rattray,_Robert_Sutherland.jpg
| birth_date = 1881
| death_date = 1938
| address = Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; HMC, Accra, Gold Coast [1907]<br />Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; District Supervisor, Kratchi, Ashanti [1909]<br />101 Piccadilly, W.; Asst District Commissioner, Ashanti [1913]<br />101 Piccadilly, W.; Political Officer, Misahohe, Togoland, via Lome, West Africa [1915]
| occupation = academic
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1931-32 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Sutherland Rattray, CBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938) was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights<br />Rattray was born in India of Scottish parents. In 1906 he joined the Gold Coast Customs Service. In 1911 he became the assistant District Commissioner at Ejura. Learning local languages, he was appointed head of the Anthropological Department of Asante in 1921. He retired in 1930. He was killed while flying a glider in 1938<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Vernon Blake, "The · Aesthetic of Ashanti".<br />· Ashanti · Proverbs: the primitive ethics of a savage people: translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes, 1916 (repub. 1969). With a preface by · Sir Hugh Clifford. <br />· Ashanti, 1923. <br />· (ed.) Religion and Art in Ashanti, Oxford University Press, 1927. <br />· · Ashanti Law and Constitution, 1929. <br />· Akan-Ashanti · Folk-Tales. Collected and translated by ... R. S. Rattray ... and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony, 1930. <br />· The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2 vols., 1932<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
MSS, photos
=== Other Material ===
