{"id":61973,"date":"2025-08-12T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:25:11","slug":"fish-teapots-and-a-pineapple-ghanas-most-stylish-coffins-in-pictures-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61973\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish, teapots and a pineapple! Ghana\u2019s most stylish coffins \u2013 in pictures | Art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Accra, 2022The Coffin Dancers in their costume \u2018Scottish red\u2019. Tschumi, who holds a doctorate in ethnology, photographed the Ghanaian undertaker and pallbearer Benjamin Aidoo, who has become known to an international audience as Ghana\u2019s coffin dancer. He is a professional undertaker and room decorator, but also dances with the coffins at funerals together with a group of young people who he has trained. His  performances include dark humour, in an attempt to distract mourners. They should not weep but rather rejoice and even laugh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Accra, 2022The Coffin Dancers in their costume \u2018Scottish red\u2019. Tschumi, who holds a doctorate in ethnology, photographed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35906,49954,64,63,457,2331,39625,134,8212,6213],"class_list":{"0":"post-61973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-art-and-design","9":"tag-art-and-design-books","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-books","13":"tag-culture","14":"tag-death-and-dying","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-photography","17":"tag-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}