Each cloth in Ghana has a meaning, it has a proverb that it represents. I bought four pieces of cloth yesterday, and these are the meanings of the cloths I bought:
- An honourable chief doesn't talk.
- A tortoise's back (A tortoise is a sign of peace, as he doesn't bother anyone and no one bothers him. His shell is a protection, so even the hunter won't use his gun to shoot a tortoise.)
- An insect hides in your cloth before he bites you (an outsider can't hurt you, it is only someone close to you that can really hurt you.)
- Symbol of chief's power, he carries it when he's being carried in the paloquine to the durbar for a celebration/ceremony.
This was my "bath" cloth...it's meaning? Children do not kill tortoises, they kill snails.
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