Their visual culture - kente and adinkra cloth, gold weights and graceful wooden stools - have become synonymous in the West with traditional Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And the abstract geometrical weights, their surfaces decorated with patterns, sometimes use the adinkra symbols, which are found as well on Akan stools and funeral cloths. From Wordnik.com. [The Arts of Africa] Reference
Create your own adinkra cloth patterns with magnetic stamps, construct slat chairs and pegged stools in the store's workshop, or try your hand at drumming. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
A local craftsman (from left) in the village of Ntonso instructs Bridge Year participants Jessica Haley, Cole Freeman, Kathleen Ryan and Aria Miles about adinkra cloth dying. From Wordnik.com. [Princeton University Top Stories] Reference
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