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Mu ren zhuang (Chinese: 木人桩; pinyin: Mù Rén Zhuāng; lit. 'Wooden Man Post') or Mook Yan Jong (also known as The Wing-Chun Dummy or simply The Wooden Dummy internationally), is a training tool used in various styles of Chinese martial arts, most notably that of Wing Chun and other kung fu styles of Southern China.
The forestry sector of Ghana accounted for 4.2 percent of GDP in 1990; timber was the country's third largest foreign exchange earner. Since 1983 forestry has benefited from more than US$120 million in investments and has undergone substantial changes, resulting in doubled earnings between 1985 and 1990.
Figurative palanquin; drawing by the coffin- and palanquin builder Ataa Oko (1918–2012) from Ghana. Seth Kane Kwei (1922–1992) was a Ga carpenter joiner established in Teshie, in the suburbs of Accra in Ghana.
The town is under the jurisdiction of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and is in the Nhyiaeso constituency of the Ghana parliament. [1] The town has one of the biggest wood villages in Ghana that was inaugurated by the former President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor.The wood village includes the construction of sheds, access roads, electricity and reliable water supply on 12.35 hectares.
It is used as a tropical hardwood for cabinetry, carving, flooring, joinery, musical instruments, and turnery. The wood is heavy, with a density of 0.85 g/cm 3. [7] It is durable, and resistant to wood-boring insects. [6] It is sometimes used in guitar manufacturing in solid bodies and in the backs and sides of acoustic guitar bodies.
The traditional Ghanaian stool (or asesedwa in the Asante Twi language) is a carved wooden stool common in sub-Saharan West Africa, and especially common in Ghana. [1] Among the Akan it is used as a household object, it is used in rites of passage, and is considered sacred. [2]
Earthenware dish is one of the oldest kitchen tools in Ghana and can be found in almost every Ghanaian home. it is an integral part of Ghana's culture and known as one of the old pottery professions in Ghana among the women of some districts, Indigens of some towns in the Eastern, Bono and Ashanti regions of Ghana involved in the mass production of pottery items includes Amanfrom, Besease ...
The Timber and Woodworkers' Union (TWU) is a trade union representing carpenters, sawmill workers, and cane weavers in Ghana. The union was established in 1952, and affiliated to the Ghana Trade Union Congress. By 1970, it had 20,850 members, and by 2012 this had grown to 25,000.