Adinkrais a cotton cloth produced in West Africa that has traditional Akan symbols stamped on it. These symbols represent popular proverbs, often conveying more meaning than a single word can. Osram Ne Nsoromma is one of those symbols consisting of a star and half moon. The moon and star t...
Q: Do Lodges provide jewelry to their members?A: No. As a rule, each brother chooses and purchases his own according to his own taste and his budget. Some lodges, however, do order custom lapel pins with their lodge name and number on them for their members. ...
Some trace the adinkra’s beginnings to a battle between the Gyaaman clans and the Asante Nation in the early 19th century. Others claim the adinkra are older. In the British Museum hangs a mourning cloth, adinkra symbols stamped from carved calabash and vegetable dye from a badie tree, that...
when the EnglishT.E. Bowdichcollected a piece of adinkra cotton cloth from the city of Kumasi. The patterns on it were printed using carved calabash stamps and a vegetable-based dye. The cloth featured fifteen stamped symbols, includingnsroma(stars),dono ntoasuo(double Dono drums), anddiamond...