The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente.The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente ken·te n. 1. A brightly patterned, handwoven ceremonial cloth of the Ashanti. 2. A durable machine-woven fabric similar to this fabric, prominently featured in Afrocentric fashion. by Margaret Musgrove and illustrations by Julia Cairns Cairns, city (1991 pop. 64,463), Queensland, NE Australia, on Trinity Bay. It is a principal sugar port of Australia; lumber and other agricultural products are also exported. The city's proximity to the Great Barrier Reef has made it a tourist center. Blue Sky Press (Scholastic), February 2001, $16.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-590-98787-9 Margaret Musgrove follows her acclaimed debut children's book Ashanti to Zulu (1976), a winner of the Caldecott Medal for illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon Leo and Diane Dillon are a prolific American husband and wife team of illustrators. Leo was raised in Brooklyn, and Diane in the Los Angeles area. They met at the Parsons School of Design in NYC in 1953, some time after Diane moved from California to New York. , with another West African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. tale entitled, The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth. After many years of travel, research, and teaching in Africa Musgrove spins a tale of traditional Ghana. Two weavers, Nana Koragu and Nana Ameyaw, discover a very intricate and magical looking spider web. The weavers are struck by the beautiful patterns and attempt to take the web home to their Ashanti village of Bonwire. Unfortunately, the web collapses upon their touch. These weavers were experts, and everyone from the king of the Ashanti people to the lowliest apprentice wore their cloth. Amazed at how the web had been woven with a single unbroken thread, they had to study it further. The weavers return to the jungle early the next day to witness the large yellow and black spider spin her web. Imitating the spider's weaving dance, the men create a new woven cloth known to the world as kente-nwen-ntoma. Self-taught painter Julia Cairns brings the experience of working on landscape paintings in the Okavavngo Swamps in northern Botswana, providing vibrant watercolor illustrations. Her work completes this story of traditional West Africa--which dates back to the mid-seventeenth century. Included in this work are an afterword af·ter·word n. See epilogue. , which provides additional information regarding the history of the story, and a pronunciation guide to assist the reader with the language of the Ashanti people. |
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