Woodcarving

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="063a6553.jpg"> <div> <B><meta name="description" content=" dipo adinkra fiema kente bracelets Arts Crafts Ghana Ashanti beads brass cast glass tour Kumasi community Fair Trade Tourism Concern Responsible Environment recycled"></B><B>Woodcarving</B><B><meta name="keywords" content=" Arts Crafts Ghana Ashanti beads brass cast glass tour Kumasi community Fair Trade Tourism Concern Responsible Environment recycled kiln Koforidua market"></B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Eleven day tour - </B><B>Itinerary</B></div> <div> Day 1:Meet at airport and transfer to hotel.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1be95610.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="97" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <div> Day 2: Orientation on health, customs, and currency: morning tour of Accra, Ghana's capital: visit the National Museum to learn Ghana's history and cultural pedigree: tour the Arts Centre. </div> <div> Day 3: Drive North to Kumasi, historic capital of the Ashanti nation, through exquisite scenery from the coast up onto the central plateau.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="15e9f6a0.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="106" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> Days 4-5-6-7: Woodcarving workshops in Ahwiaa. Afternoon excusions to the Cultural Centre, Lake Bosomtwe, Kumasi Central Market.</div> <div> Day 8: South to Cape Coast, through the famous gold-bearing region of Obuasi.</div> <div> Day 9: Explore the rainforest canopy walkways of Kakum reserve with guides.</div> <div> Day 10:Tour Cape Coast's spectacular seventeenth century castle, a historic evocation of the Slave Trade. before return to Accra via the scenic Winneba beach.</div> <div> Day 11: Shopping in Accra's  Makola Market and the Arts Centre, or relaxing on the beach before return flight.</div> <div> Cost of the tours is an all inclusive £990 plus flights. This covers transport, accomodation, food, entry fees etc.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1bd92610.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="97" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>      Email info@fiema.com to find out more about the Ashanti Arts and Crafts Tours.</div> <div> Or call us on 01488 686 222</div> <bR> <div> For more about brass and powder glass beads go to </div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hand crafted jewellery"><U>Fiema Crafts</U></A><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hand crafted jewellery"><U>.</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFF99" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=2996864; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=32; var sc_security="530351fc"; var sc_text=2; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script><noscript><div class="statcounter"><a class="statcounter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c33.statcounter.com/2996864/0/530351fc/0/" alt="website statistics" /></a></div></noscript> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Ghana Ashanti Woodcarving - ethical, responsible, community based tours</B></div> <bR> <div> According to tradition, the great fetish priest Okomfo Anokye in around 1695 invited carvers to a festival in Denkyira to see who was the most skilled. </div> <bR> <div> Kofi Yoyo was acclaimed the best, and Okomfo Anokye blessed his home village of Ahwiaa and told the villagers to learn Kofi Yoyo's skills and pass them on to their children.</div> <bR> <div> Thus Ahwiaa became and remains the traditional Ashanti centre for carving Royal sceptres and stools, fertility dolls, drums and masks.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4f187010.jpg" border=0 width="391" height="513" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Villagers work in open workshops outdoors, each specialising in a particular type of carving.  One of the larger worshops creates stools each carved from a single block of wood. </div> <bR> <div> Stools are powerfully symbolic. There are stools of every type for every status: common ones for the ordinary man or woman, and the more elaborate ones for chiefs and queenmothers. </div> <bR> <div> The top is crescent-shaped and signifies the warm embrace of the mother; the middle column may be carved in a variety of animal shapes or abstract symbols; and the rectangular bottom part has a series of pyramid steps. </div> <bR> <div> <B>You can see Ashanti Wood Carving and try it for yourself on an </B><A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Craft tour July 28th August 6th 2008"><U><B>Ashanti Crafts Tour</B></U></A><B>. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dates are Saturday to Saturday: Feb 7-21,  Mar 7-21, Apr 11-25, May 9-23, Jun 13-27, Jul 11-25, Aug 8-22, Sept 12-26, Oct 10-24, Nov 14-28, Dec 12-26. 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