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Adweneasa

Twi/Akan · Akan (Asante), Ashanti Region (kente weaving) · Craft

A kente design. The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art glosses adweneasa as 'my skill is exhausted', the weaver's most complex work with many inserted weft blocks and motifs.

The adweneasa kente was covered in weft-float motifs.

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