35 Creative Coffins From Ghana
If you want to go out in style, you need to head down to Ghana. Sad to think these masterpieces will just end up in the ground.
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35 Creative Coffins From Ghana
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olivejuice520 9 months agoA lot of these pieces are done through the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop, so named after the guy who developed the concept for these coffins. In the 1970’s, Kane Kwei was a carpenter making regular coffins and his uncle (who was dying) asked him to build a coffin in the shape of a boat. And now they are really a huge commodity in Ghana. They are supposed to be representative of some aspect of the buried person’s life, either their career or something they loved. In America, however, they are actually shown in art exhibitions as an example of contemporary sculpture.
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