Adinkra Symbols and Adinkra Cloth - Ghana Funerary Tradition

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Adinkra symbols originated in Ghana and are part of the Akan culture and tradition. The symbols are stamped on varied-colored cloths and symbolize parables, aphorisms, proverbs, popular sayings, historical events, hairstyles, and traits of animal behavior or shapes of inanimate or man-made objects. They reflect Akan common wisdom relating to God, quality of human relations, the spirituality of life and the inevitability of death. ~ The Adinkra Dictionary by W. Bruce Willis

All in the images in this video are in the Public Domain and are available at Wikimedia.org.

The music in the video are original recordings of traditional Ghana music. The recordings are in the Public Domain at Archive.org.

Photo descriptions:

Welcome and Hello in the Akan alphabet

Akan people - Migration Pattern Origin & Ethnogenesis by Melason Clerc - map.

The map of the indigenous territory of the Akan people of southern Ghana.

Funerary Portrait Head - Brooklyn Museum

Adinkra symbols from Rattray's 1927 book - "Adinkra motifs Rattray 1927" by R S Rattray, - Religion & art in Ashanti 1927.

Calabash adinkra stamps carved in Ntonso, Ghana.

Ntonso Adinkra stamp ink process. Boiling tree bark to make ink.

Artisan using a comb to mark parallel lines on an Adinkra cloth in Ntonso, Ghana.

Artisan prints an Adinkra cloth with a calabash stamp in Ntonso, Ghana.

Adinkra mourning cloth collected by Thomas Edward Bowdich in 1817. Bowdich obtained this cotton cloth in Kumasi, a city in south-central Ghana. The patterns were printed using carved calabash stamps and a vegetable-based dye. This oldest known example of adinkra art features fifteen stamped symbols, including nsroma (stars), dono ntoasuo (double Dono drums), and diamonds. British Museum.

Adinkra cloth dated 1825.

Local chiefs of the Ashanti in West Sekyere district, Ghana. One wearing Adinkra cloth (in white stamped with blank symbols).

"Dashiki and kufi" by Emilio Labrador - A group of drummers in Accra, Ghana.


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