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Appliquéd Battalion Flag Asafo: Rooster with a frog in its beak

The cockerel is associated with time. It also a popular symbol of authority. The frog, an earth-bound animal that buries itself in the mud during the dry season, surviving there until the following rainy season, is associated with death, but sometimes also with fertility. Author: Doris Kubisch

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Fante
Object type
Fahne
Dimensions
Width: 1590.0 mm
Height: 1020.0 mm
Material/Technique
Textiles
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/2625

Provenance and sources

when
1930 - 1985
when
18.01.1990
where
Africa (location/origin)
Ghana (location/origin)
who
Krieg, Karl H. - Collectors

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