Ruracio is the process of negotiating and paying the bride price while Uthoni is like a house party where both the bride and groom’s families get to know each other.
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There are two methods the Ashantis use in printing the Adinkra symbols on cloth; the block-stamp technique, and the screen-printing. The Adinkra cloth was originally printed from hand carverd stamps from calabash or gourd. The dye or ink for printing is derived from the bark of the Badie tree and the roots of the kuntunkuni tree. …
“Akokobaatan” – Mother Hen Symbolic of motherliness, parental care, discipline and tenderness. From the proverb “when the hen steps on the feet of her chicks, she doesn’t mean to kill them”. (Little box of squares forming a diamond shape)
Ruracio simply means “dowry negotiations” or “dowry payment”. Theses days the ruracio ceremony precedes the wedding in Kikuyu. The bride price or dowry is now is determined by factors such as how educated the bride is, her career, her social class, e.t.c. The bride price usually includes: Items for the men in the family A…
(1) Full package ( inclusive of photographing) 49 serving pots 15 cooking pots 4 aluminum dishes 2 closed serving dishes 3 buckets for mukoyo 1 chopping boards 4 knives 5 kitchen towels 20 aprons 2 graters 1 big flask 1 big nshima pot 1 big mbaula and 2 medium 1 big cooking stick This…
The Ashanti people began to print Adinkra symbols on cloth on the 19th century. They originally got the symbols from the cloth of the defeated king of Gyaman Kingdom in present day Côte d’Ivoire. When the Ashantis brought him down to Kumasi (present day Ghana), this was the cloth he wore. At that time…
Fugu means cloth in Moshie language in Ghana. The Moshies who migrated from Burkina Faso to settle in Northern Ghana, were the ones who brought in this fabric. It is also known as Bingba or Batakari in other parts of Ghana. The fugu fabric is made from cotton threads woven on simple hand looms into…
