...Ghanaian Traditional Stools...

Stools in Ghana come in different shapes, sizes, designs and purposes... If you ever assumed that all stools can be used in the kitchen or worse still, that all stools can be used in the chief's palace then you are mistaken. Every clan, tribe, emblem or totem of the people of Ghana can in most cases be identified by the stools used in the various palaces of the areal they are found. You see, the thing with us Ghanaians is that we do have a lot of spiritual, symbolic and sometimes hard-to believe attachments to objects that might be taken for granted elsewhere. This is the land where almost every animal and object has some form of ancestral attachment to it. Take for instance the Ghanaian traditional stools... This is the Golden stool(lying flat) of the Great Ashanti kingdom and is made of pure gold. History has that this stool has never touched the ground and usually placed on the skin of an elephant indoors. It is believed that not many people had the opportunity to see it with their naked eyes. It continues to n=be hidden in an undisclosed place since it was the quest to posses it that brought a lot of wars in the Ashanti area of Ghana...Find below a number of different traditional stools. These stools represent different clans and tribes and are used on different occasions Take a very good look at the inaugural seat of Ghana...yes! that is certainly a stool and not your usual "chair"....:)