The West African country of Ghana has taken invention and creativity to a whole new level with bizarre coffin designs emblematic of the jobs they did in their lifetime.
Crazy coffin designs in the African nation
show how the dead have been buried in caskets shaped like a pineapple, a
camera and even a beer bottle, to represent their jobs in life.
As
well as work-related coffins, some choose to have theirs shaped like
animals, including a lion and even a beetle, to symbolise their clan
totems.
The
tradition of the custom coffins has developed among Christians in the
Greater Accra Region of Ghana since the 1960s. Before that, the special
coffins were reserved only for chiefs and priests.
Workers
seem capable of fashioning coffins in almost any designs, from planes,
to pineapples, milk cartons and even mobile phones.
Photojournalist
Christina Czybik, from Hamburg, Germany, captured these images while
travelling through Ghana and Togo with King Bansah, Queen Gabi and the
royal delegation earlier this month.
Miss Czybik, 37, discovered the tradition of Ghana's fancy coffins while researching her trip and was immediately intrigued.
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