In one marvelous shot, women walk in a single line, carrying clay pots on their heads. It takes a moment to realize what looks faintly familiar about them. Their tunics of rawhide cover one shoulder in the manner of Artemis the huntress in Ancient Greece. A pure coincidence, of course. A man stamping the ground over his mother's burial place wears a knee-length loin cloth uncannily draped in a fashion again reminiscent of Antiquity.
More unexpected associations crop up.
In the crowd, two men have small circular shields with a boss in the center, attached to the back of their hands. The model reproduces a rare type of Middle Eastern buckler known through bronze specimens of the 10th to the 15th century. There must be some connection. Indeed, on closer inspection, the isolation of the remotest groups is soon revealed to be very relative. In the passage into womanhood rites performed by the Krobo and the Shai of eastern Ghana, strands of carnelian beads are strapped around the waists of the young girls.