Ghanaian coffins - in pictures
Amid calls for a three-day weekend in Ghana to allow residents to attend more funeral parties (with the emphasis on party), here's a look at some of the country's famous customised coffins
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A coffin being made in the shape of a fish near Accra, June 2005
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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A coffin in the shape of a car in Accra, June 2005
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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A coffin builder near Accra looks over a casket created for someone who worked in the photographic industry
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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A fish-shaped coffin is paraded through the streets of Accra in 1994 after being dripped in goats blood
Photograph: Jack Picone/Alamy
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A coffin decorated like a Ghana Airways plane, June 2005
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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An undertaker opens a coffin, shaped like a shoe, in his showroom in Accra in January 2008
Photograph: Abdelhak Senna/AFP
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Carpenters carry a fish-shape coffin through Accra in January 2004
Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
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Carpenters lift a coffin shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle in Teshie, Accra, in 2004
Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
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Tools of the trade in a workshop in Pokuase Town, Ga District, near Accra, June 2005
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
