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25 relations: Adinkra symbols, Africa, Akan people, Alligator, Anansi, Anthropomorphism, Base metal, Brass, Copper, Currency, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Geometry, Ghana, Goldsmith, Harappa, Hausa people, Islam, Ivory Coast, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lost-wax casting, Mali, National Museum of Ghana, Simon Fraser University, West Africa, Zinc.
Adinkra symbols
Adinkra are visual symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Akan people
The Akan are a meta-ethnicity predominantly speaking Central Tano languages and residing in the southern regions of the former Gold Coast region in what is today the nation of Ghana.
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Alligator
An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae.
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Anansi
Anansi is an Akan folktale character.
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Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
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Base metal
A base metal is a common and inexpensive metal, as opposed to a precious metal such as gold or silver.
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Currency
A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.
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Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Derby Museum and Art Gallery was established in 1879, along with Derby Central Library, in a new building designed by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass.
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Geometry
Geometry (from the γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.
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Harappa
Harappa (Urdu/ہڑپّہ) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa) are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (born May 8, 1954) is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.
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Lost-wax casting
Lost-wax casting (also called "investment casting", "precision casting", or cire perdue in French) is the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.
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National Museum of Ghana
The National Museum of Ghana is in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
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Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada with campuses in Burnaby (Main Campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_goldweights
