Fante woman dressed in Kente adorned with expensive beads. According to tradition kente is reserved for special occasion, it is not meant to be used for common place or daily activities or an ordinary wear. It can also be used as special gift item or clothing item used for rites of passage such a child naming, puberty rites invitations, graduations, marriage ceremony, soul washing, burial and ancestral remembrance ceremonies. Kente is used not only for its beauty...
![Detail: This cotton and silk Ewe cloth [British Museum number Af1934,0307.165 ] is the most elaborate of a group apparently assembled at the Ewe coastal town of Keta [then called Quittah by European sources] in the later decades of the nineteenth century by the Anglo-German merchant Charles Beving and donated to the museum in 1934. Mexican Textiles, Japanese Textiles, Japanese Patterns, Cloth Patterns, Ghana Weaving, Cultural Crafts](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f9/c3/03/f9c303b0158757341e13326ffa18364c--tribal-symbols-kente-cloth.jpg)
