PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUNG WOMAN
(1968)

Original Dimensions:
33" x 4" x  5"

Original Materials:
King or Black Ebony

This special hairstyle is a form of ODUKU which is fashioned by the females of the coast dwellers of Ghana, especially among the the Fantes, Gas and Ga-Dangmes. There is no special occasion on which one cannot see a kind of this type of adornment. But they are used in Fanteland on girls who have completed their puberty rites, and especially, on the elderly who display their wealth on special occasions. These occasions include reverence to the dead during final funeral rites.