ART AND TECHNOLOGY

IN PRE COLONIAL
GHANA
ART IS the creation of works of beauty, especially visual ones;
Technology is the use of scientific ideas to produce tools to make work easy and fast.
pre colonial ghana were in engage in art and technology advancement in iron working,
brass casting, pottery, weaving, gold mining, wood working which depend on their
location. Ghanians express their thoughts and beliefs in this art works and technology.
• THE technology of precolonial was depicted on their advancement
and creativity in artwork.
• which include sculpture, painting, pottery,rock art, textiles,
masks,iron work, personal decoration,and jewelry.
iron working eg Brong - Ahafo and Akpafu
it was obtain localy or from the europeans
• process of iron working
• collection of iron stones
• smelting furnance
• Bellowing and fuelling
• collection of iron
• socio-economic importance
• agricultural tools
• weapons
• household tools and ornaments
• items for trade
• employment
pottery process
, tools needed are flat knive, cloth, palm fruits, sticck, corn corbs,
flat stones
• it was dominated by women particulaly in the Asante, Krobo, volta, kwahu where clay was available
• process
• extrating clay
• pounding
• moulding
• drying
• firing
• knocking
• decoration
• importance
• for domestics toools
• for medicinal storage and ornaments
• employment
• trade items
wood carving
• process
• cutting the suitable tree
• cutting the necessary part
• shaping it
• smoothing it
• importance
• employment
• transportation
• building
• traditional symbols
• domestic tools
GOLD MINING
• Method of extracting Gold
• paning
• digging
• importance
• manufacturing jeweries,
• minting coins
• employment
• making traditional ornaments
• trade items
weaving
• process
• skin from animals
• cotton cloth
• bark of trees
• importance
• employment
• it depict our cultural heritage and natinal identity
• medium of exchange
• bury the dead
what conculsion can we make out of this
• pre colonial Ghana were highly develop to the extend that they can
express their ideas, thought, beliefs in their artistic expession, clan
pots, wood carving, traditional cloth and funerary arts which did not
only depict their religious beliefs but rather also contributed to their
socio-economic development through the provision of employment,
trade items, domestic used,decoration, preserving their history and
cultures.