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Sonntag, 10. August 2008

Ethnic Studies Part 1

Upper Austrian Folk Art

The people in the Queen´s country are good communicators but they are also creative. It´s the custom around here to let everybody know that there´s a birthday boy or girl. Relatives or friends make objects or dolls/puppets, sometimes installations and put them in front of the birthday person´s house. It is a surprise and present for the person, but can also be a critical humorous statement about the person, the person´s job, hobby, passion and it is used as a sign for everybody passing by.
The first association that came to P.P.´s mind was the figural fantasy coffins in Ghana, Afrika.
In the beginning of the 1950s Ata Owoo (1904 –1976) , a talented carpenter in Ghana, started with the idea and design of a coffin with the shape and colour of an eagle for a chief. The first carpenter who realized the ideas was the journeyman of Ata Owoo, Kane Kwei (1922-1992). Kane Kwei created a hole new funeral culture, funeral art. For his grandmother who died, he made a coffin that looked like an airplane, because it was the grandmother´s biggest wish to go by plane.

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