00:01in Ghana particularly among the ga communities around the capital figurative of fantasy coffins
00:08as they are known offer fantastical yet intimate send-offs when singer Frederick take of four he
00:15died in a road accident his family sold a coffin built in the shape of an enormous guitar when
00:23customers or die coughing they mostly or that based on what to do for a living or something
00:29you love so much during your lifetime so that's what they look on and then sometimes they have a
00:37picture of whatever they want sometimes without the picture I imagine the thing in my head because
00:43a forest coffin was also powerful the course in a country where celebrations of life often include
00:50such intricately crafted tributes to the deceased fishermen are buried in massive human-sized
00:57fish or canoes and farmers in cocoa pods we believe whatever you did on this earth when you go to
01:04the afterlife you continue it there and then once the coffin gets to the funeral ground let's say
01:12a fish or a canoe gets to a funeral ground everybody has the idea that this coffin is for a
01:19fisherman the
01:22modern tradition of sculptural coffins emerged among gar craftsmen around a cry in the middle of the 20th
01:28century today the objects occupy an unusual niche of contemporary art it's it takes about two to three
01:39weeks to finish a fantastic coffin depending on the design and then also mostly the type of food being used
01:49at his funeral near accra a forest coffin stood out its maker convinced the peace truly honors the man resting
01:58in it
