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Ga Fantasy Coffin

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Abebuu adekai — "boxes with proverbs." Since the 1950s the Kane Kwei workshop in Teshie has built coffins shaped like the life inside them: a boat for a fisherman, a cocoa pod for a farmer, an aeroplane for a woman who liked to watch them land.

They are pieced from wawa timber like furniture, then handed to sign painters who finish them in industrial enamel — flat opaque fields, 2–4px black keylines, one hard specular sliver, no shading. This system paints screens the same way.

Learn more about the Ga Fantasy Coffin style

  • OriginTeshie, Greater Accra, Ghana — Ga people
  • Period1950s to present; workshop founded ~1951, current output 2020s
  • DesignerSeth Kane Kwei · Paa Joe · Ben Kwei · Eric Adjetey Anang
  • MovementsGa funerary art · West African sign painting · contemporary African sculpture

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