Akan people
The Akan people mostly live in Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa.[1] They speak the Akan language (also known as Twi/Fante). Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Ashanti, Bono, Fante, Kwahu, Wassa, and Ahanta. The Akan subgroups all have a lot in common; most notably tracing matrilineal descent in the inheritance of property, and for succession to high political office.
Akan People Media
- Akan Gold Weight MHNT bovid head.jpg
Cast brass weights used to measure precise amounts of gold dust. Weights in this system were developed in the seventeenth century. These weights are from the nineteenth century.
- Akan face.jpg
17th Century Akan Terracotta – Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Akan dancer.jpg
Akan girl dancing cultural Akan Dance
- Brooklyn Museum 1993.182.3 Staff Finial.jpg
Akan metalwork from the Brooklyn Museum, New York City, United States.
- Brooklyn Museum 1998.36 Mask Bo Nun Amuin.jpg
Mask (Bo Nun Amuin), from the early 20th century.
- Brooklyn Museum 22.1771 Elephant Mask GlaoKlolo (3).jpg
Wooden mask of an elephant.
- COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Houten masker van een woudgod TMnr 3305-16.jpg
Het masker behoort tot de zogenaamde Bo nun Amuin maskers, letterlijk 'goden in of van het woud' of Amuin yasua, letterlijk 'de goden van de mensen'. Deze beelden angstaanjagende dierenkoppen uit met open kaken en prominente tanden.
- Gold ornaments (mask and shield), Ashanti - African objects in the American Museum of Natural History - DSC05964.JPG
Empire of Ashanti warrior military golden war combat helmet and personal armour of the Empire of Ashanti – Museum of Natural History.
- Asante map.jpg
Empire of Ashanti and the Gold Coast map.