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Figurative palanquin; drawing by Ataa Oko from Ghana. Among Christians, the use of custom coffins is relatively recent and began in the Greater Accra Region around 1950. They were formerly used only by Ga chiefs and priests, but since around 1960, figurative coffins have become an integral part of the local funeral culture. [4]
Paa Joe with a sandal coffin in collaboration with Regula Tschumi for the Kunstmuseum Berne 2006. Paa Joe was born in 1947 at Akwapim in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Joe began his career with a twelve-year apprenticeship as a coffin artist in the workshop of Kane Kwei (1924–1992) in Teshie. [8] In 1976, Joe started his own business in Nungua.
He was a long time considered to be the inventor in the early 1950s of design coffins or fantasy coffins, [1] called Abebuu adekai ("boxes with proverbs") by the Ga people, the dominant ethnic group of the region of Accra. Though, an anthropologist recently published a different story of the origin of the coffins.
Ataa Oko and his third wife in front of his boat coffin, c. 1960. p. 137, "The buried treasures of the Ga", 2008 Pompidou coffin by Kudjoe Affutu, 2010. Photo by Regula Tschumi. The use of these fantasy coffins is explained by the religious beliefs of the Ga people regarding their afterlife.
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Figurative palanquin; drawing by Ataa Oko from Ghana A figurative palanquin connected with the totem of its owner is a special kind of litter used in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana . These palanquins called in the Ga language okadi akpakai belong to the royal insignias and are used only by the Ga kings or mantsemei and their sub-chiefs when ...
A sexual fantasy is exactly what it sounds like—a mental image or dreamed-up situation that turns you on. Some might be acted out, while others may solely be for your own imaginative safe-keeping.
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