LISA FOOTE '96

PROGRAM: SIT-GHANA

PHOTO: NTONSO, GHANA

 

BROTHER YAW

My studies in Ghana focused on textiles, specifically the techniques of making Adinkra cloth. Yaw was one of the men that taught me the hand embroidering that joins any two strips of cloth together. Every day he, three or four other men, and I would work under this tree.

-- LISA FOOTE