Ghanaian coffins - in pictures

A coffin being made in the shape of a fish near Accra, June 2005 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

A coffin in the shape of a car in Accra, June 2005 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

A coffin builder near Accra looks over a casket created for someone who worked in the photographic industry Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

A fish-shaped coffin is paraded through the streets of Accra in 1994 after being dripped in goats blood Photograph: Jack Picone/Alamy

A coffin decorated like a Ghana Airways plane, June 2005 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

An undertaker opens a coffin, shaped like a shoe, in his showroom in Accra in January 2008 Photograph: Abdelhak Senna/AFP

Carpenters carry a fish-shape coffin through Accra in January 2004 Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Carpenters lift a coffin shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle in Teshie, Accra, in 2004 Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Tools of the trade in a workshop in Pokuase Town, Ga District, near Accra, June 2005 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian