Fantasy Coffins of Ghana
When visiting Ghana, you should also visit the coffin makers of Teshie-Nungua!
Unique Arts - fantasy Coffins For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life -- and the Ga make sure they do so in style. They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived. |
Ghana`s Fantasy Coffins - For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life -- and the Ga make sure they do so in style.
They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived. |
The coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person's life -- such as a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea -- or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice -- such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette.
Ablade Glover, an artist who works with the carpenters, says the coffin acts as a home in the afterlife, so it must be beautiful. But he laments that after putting so much time into creating the coffin, it gets hidden underground.
"By the end of the day, they are going to bury this thing, which has taken so much time, so much energy?" he says.
Ablade Glover, an artist who works with the carpenters, says the coffin acts as a home in the afterlife, so it must be beautiful. But he laments that after putting so much time into creating the coffin, it gets hidden underground.
"By the end of the day, they are going to bury this thing, which has taken so much time, so much energy?" he says.
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Why be buried in a boring coffin, when you can get handmade coffins that look like a fish , lobster, snake, bird, shoe, beer bottle, even a cigarette?
For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration.
The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life — and the Ga make sure they do so in style.
They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
The coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person’s life — such as a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea — or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice — such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette.
Die Saerge werden so entworfen um auch das Leben der toten Person darzustellen . Z.B. einen LKW Fahrer , Fischer oder eine Naeherin . Oder auch den "Lebemann", mit einer Flasche Bier oder einer Zigarette .
For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration.
The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life — and the Ga make sure they do so in style.
They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
The coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person’s life — such as a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea — or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice — such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette.
Die Saerge werden so entworfen um auch das Leben der toten Person darzustellen . Z.B. einen LKW Fahrer , Fischer oder eine Naeherin . Oder auch den "Lebemann", mit einer Flasche Bier oder einer Zigarette .
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In Teshie, and Teshie- Nungua - East Accra, ( Beach Road ACCRA - TEMA )
you can order your own coffin. Wood-carved, painted and in every form you like. If you spent your life, working as a fisherman, you can get buried in a seaworthy 2 m boat model (including crew). People who only dreamt of having an own car get buried buried in a wooden Mercedes-Benz.
you can order your own coffin. Wood-carved, painted and in every form you like. If you spent your life, working as a fisherman, you can get buried in a seaworthy 2 m boat model (including crew). People who only dreamt of having an own car get buried buried in a wooden Mercedes-Benz.
The customers pay between 500 and 1000 $ for such examples of one-way art,which will leave a lasting impression on the day of their funeral. Until this day comes, the coffins are stored in the owners house-dreams of a future which will come true in the beyond ...
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