EWE ART, Ghana

EWE Couple 5

EWE Fetishes

EWE Figure 27

EWE Style Fetishes

EWE Women's Wrap 106

EWE Women's Wrap 106

EWE Women's Wrap 106

EWE Men's Wraps 1

EWE Men's Wraps 1

EWE Men's Wraps 1

EWE Men's Wraps 2

EWE Men's Wraps 2

EWE Men's Wraps 2

Photographs © Tim Hamill

Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.

These Ewe Couples are fetish-like combinations similar to their more common doll-like single figures.