File:Adinkra cloth.JPG

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English: Adinkra mourning cloth collected by Thomas Edward Bowdich in 1817. Bowdich obtained this cotton cloth in Kumasi, a city in south-central Ghana. The patterns were printed using carved calabash stamps and a vegetable-based dye. This oldest known example of adinkra art and features fifteen stamped symbols, including nsroma (stars), dono ntoasuo (double Dono drums), and diamonds. British Museum.
Date 18th century cloth, collected in 1817
Source http://www.history.buffalo.edu/documents/SeemanWMQ.pdf
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