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adinkra
Akan (Twi) · 1700s
"farewell; symbols stamped on funerary cloth"
named after Gyaman King Nana Kwadwo Agyemang Adinkra; the Twi root also carries the sense of "farewell", tied to the symbols' funerary origins
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adinkra
English · 1900s
"a system of symbolic Akan visual symbols"
adopted by English-language art historians and textile scholars to name the Akan symbol system
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