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Abusua Kuruwa

Fante · Akan (Twi & Fante), Ghana · Craft

A commemorative clan (family) pot of the Akan peoples, made of terracotta and associated with funerary commemoration. The Metropolitan Museum dates its example to the 19th–mid-20th century.

An abusua kuruwa was placed at the family's commemorative site.

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