Funerary Coffins: the concept of having a coffin for the dead to be buried in came from European religious practices. These coffins are hand carved out of wood. In contemporary Ghanaian culture they have taken western concept of coffins and they carve the coffins into large scale figures and images such as cars and cell phones pertaining to significance in the life of the deceased. This image is of a Coca-cola coffin.
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