These usually called Ada / Adan figures seem to be part of Voodoo ritual objects of the EWE in the Volta region ( Ghana ) ( though it is the same area of some up to 3000 people - or may be only a few hundred left ? - of Adangbe / Adan / Ada - speaking people in the Ghana - Togo border district .

These special ADE figures represent the various ADE Hunting divinities of EWE and also Yoruba people .

Those figures are called :

Agevi - a wooden or earthen statuette of a person , male or female , which has one arm , one leg and even one eye . Agevi is a representation of the dwarf spirit AGE , used in the AGE aspect of the circle of ADELA ( deified ancestor killed by a gun or a deified prominent hunter ) or ADE divinities .
AGEVI symbolizes mysticism . Asisiagbate - a wooden or earthen statuette of a person carrying a load .

Asisiagbate is a composite of the AGBEWU or MAMA circle of ADE divinities , a female counterpart of the hunter
in search of trade or commerce . Symbolizes commerce . Guyi - a knife -
an indispensable relic of KPOKPO ( divinity of leadership and war ) DZOGBE ( deified ancestor killed accidentally ) and others .
Also used to slaughter for the divinities .Symolizes authority and justice . ( pers. comments and unpublished manuscript ) of Dale Massiasta - BLAKHUD Reserach Centre - Klikor , Ghana )
From the research work of Dr Volker Schneider, Zeutern, Deutschland.

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Ghana

Ada Ewe

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