Mid-20th Century Fante Asafo Flag, Ghana
Located in New York, NY
A large and graphically stunning asafo flag. Fante flags represent the merger of two cultural traditions, the Akan tradition of combining proverbs with ...
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Ghanaian Tapestries
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Place of Origin: Ghanaian
A mounted rare mid twentieth century ewe cloth
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Cotton
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