larger image Cloth As Metaphor (Re)reading $20.00 The Akan of Ghana and the Ivory Coast ( West Africa ) encode a number of symbols in their hand-woven and hand-printed cloths such as the adinkra and kente cloths. The symbols encoded in these cloths are linked to proverbs, stories, songs, maxims, beliefs and everyday expressions. These symbols in essence constitute a writing system with which the Akan communicate. As a writing system the adinkra cloth symbols, for example, are grouped as pictograms, ideograms, and phonograms. This book contains over 700 adinkra cloth symbols with their names and meanings and some of the stories and proverbs associated with the symbols. It develops themes from the texts encoded in the proverbs, stories, and maxims associated with these symbols in order to highlight the links between the verbal and visual in Akan art and language. The themes covered are cosmology, social and political organization, social and ethical values, economics, and knowledge of the Akan of Ghana.	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $390.00 Adwini si Adwini so - Hierarchy (Adwiniasa Version)
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $375.00 Asam Takra - Feathers Of the Guinea Fowl	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $475 Fathia Adwini si Adwini so - Fathia Dserves Nkrumah (Adwiniasa Version)
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $450.00 Ohene Aforo Hyen - The King Rides In A Motor Vehicle	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $390.00 Mampon Hemmaa - Queenmother of Mampon
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $475.00 Aberewa Bene - Brave Woman	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $450.00 Agyenegyene Nsuo - Water Purifier
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $450.00 Obi Nkye Obi Kwan Mu Si - To Err is Human	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $475.00 Amere Oyokoman - Royalty
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $475.00 Yaa Asantewaa - Queenmother Yaa Asantewaa	larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $450.00 Nyarko Frimpomaa - Queenmother Nyarko Frimpomaa
larger image Bonwire Kente Weaving Institut $340.00 Mmada - Never Happened Before; Unique