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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Ga coffins: Empire State Building

As part of her research for her book: 

Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre---How We Dignify the Dead



the journalist Sarah Murray commissioned her very own Empire State Building coffin. See how our Ga coffin and thematic box maker Eric Adotey Naah made it below:

 
Eric the carpenter and his masterpiece

   

The tip


   
Checking the inside...



 Making sure the doors shut
   

   

The top can be conveniently removed - you can't do that with the real one!




Eric the carpenter making sure it's the right size



  
The tip
 



In all its glory... before the paint




The very beginning



   

The tools
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Find out more about Ga Coffins from this book or order your own coffin or thematic chest from the eShopAfrica.com online shop:


Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa






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