). Dress Aesthetics of Smock in Northern Ghana: Form, Function and Context

The paper is a study of the dress aesthetics of smock in Northern Ghana; their form, function and context. The study examines the cultural aesthetics of smock in Northern traditional textiles and its role in the preservation, presentation and promotion of Northern culture and makes recommendations for its sustenance. The researchers adopted the qualitative paradigm and used descriptive and visual analytic approaches through the use of interviews and observations as its research tools.

Keywords: aesthetic, artefacts, cultural symbolism, indigenous textiles, regalia, smock, north, traditional rulers, yensichi, dagomba, bingmaa, kpakoto, yeble, balmaasu, kuyilli gbagno, moslem community, nam-kpaargu