STL files for 3D printing and modeling of Adinkrah symbols, book about Adinkrah and short videos of Ghanaian Adinkrah symbols KING Adinkra, an Ivorian King is the originator of Adinkra as it is believed that the king wore exceptional attire with well patterned symbolic ‘symbols’ which denotes special meanings. King Adinkra dies by the ‘sword’ of the Ashanti King, Nana Osei Bonsu in 1818 for insulting him.
The death of King Adinkra passes on a new cultural practice in the Ashanti Kingdom; the patterns on King Adinkra’s cloth becomes the inheritance to the Ashantis which would be passed on from generation to generation.
Local folks of Adinkra village say, ‘The first men created the symbols to make the cloth and that the traditional symbols were (66) but as time went by, new symbols were introduced, hence some symbols could have more than one symbols but same meanings, as seen in Plate 1.0.
And these symbols could have historic meanings, proverbial, parables, aphorisms which I believe, forms the norms and values of people in the community and echoes their meanings when printed or affixed onto surfaces.