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The Verbal-Visual Connection Akan Linguist Staffs The Verbal-Visual Connection

Ghana is a very rich country known for its gold trading Ghana is a very rich country known for its gold trading. For a long time they did not have written language so their oral tradition is very important

Ashanti Culture For a long time there was not a written language so the oral tradition is very important and well developed Kente Cloth is a famous type of cloth, The cloth displays Adinkra Symbols. Each symbol has a special meaning. Akan Chief, Ghana, 20th century

Remember Keith Haring? He worked with symbols too. Studying and using symbols is called SEMIOTICS.

Akan linguists, Ghana/Ivory Coast, 20th century

"No one goes to the house of the spider Ananse to teach him wisdom” "No one goes to the house of the spider Ananse to teach him wisdom”. Akan Linguist staff, Ghana, wood and Gold leaf, 20th century. "It is better not to have fired at all than to fire and only wound the leopard.”

“Paddling the boat on both sides makes it go straight”, Akan Linguist staff, Ghana, wood and Goldleaf, 20th cent. “It is the rightful owner of the food who gets to eat it”, Akan linguist staff, Ghana, painted wood, 20th century.

“ Birds of the Same Species roost in the Same Tree” Wood & Goldleaf, 20th century “one person does not rule a nation” Akan Linguist staff, Ghana, wood & Goldleaf 20th century.

Leopard standing on another Leopard, Goldweights Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, 17th-19th century

Goldweights with conventionalized Arabic and Roman characters Brass with copper plugs, 15th-17th century,

Goldweights representing animals, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast Brass, 17th-19th century

Man carrying palmwine; man on horse back with a spear; woman with a bowl on her head and a child on her back—Goldweights, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, brass, 17th-19th century

Man playing drums; man with a side blown trumpet Goldweights, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, brass, 17-19th century

Geometric shapes, Goldweights, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast Brass, 17-19th century

Two persons on a stool; woman regarding herself in a mirror; man on a stool Holding a parasol, Goldweights, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, 17th century

Pangolin, Goldweight, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, brass 17th-19th century

Goldweights representing artifacts, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast, brass, 17th-19th century

Goldweights representing stools and game boards, Akan, Ghana/Ivory Coast 17th-19th century