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A wooden comb with a row of long teeth.
Also known as: Wooden comb symbol, Duafe symbol, Comb with long teeth
Duafe is a wooden comb, and the qualities it is associated with — care, cleanliness, feminine virtue — are read from what a comb is used for rather than from any abstract shape. Adinkra symbols are frequently objects read this way.
Denotes beauty, cleanliness and desirable feminine qualities in Akan tradition, drawn as a wooden hair comb.
Contexts: Public information
Reads its meaning from the object's use rather than from abstract form, which is characteristic of the object-derived adinkra symbols.
Contexts: Public information
A flat rectangular handle with a row of four or five long straight teeth extending from one edge, sometimes with a decorated head.