How is pattern used to enhance cultural identity at the Nankani compound in Sirigu, Ghana? What kinds of patterns are used and on what kinds of objects and surfaces?
What will be an ideal response?
Essays responses should include these points:
Men build the compounds; women paint the buildings inside and out.
The structures are gender-specific: the round dwellings are for women, and the rectangular flat-roofed houses are for men.
The walls are decorated with horizontal molded ridges, symbolizing cultivated fields, and "long eye" to symbolize long life.
They paint the walls with rectangles and squares divided diagonally to create patterns called "braided slings" or "filed teeth."
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