According to Kwame Adapa the Akan weaving patterns Rattray observed and which he meticulously recorded in his book ‘Religion and Art in Ashanti’ embed the so-called Fibonacci numbers and suggest a level of fractal encoding which may point to this knowledge having come from ancient Kemet (Egypt), Nubia or beyond. Adapa finds identical weaving patterns created by the people of Fiji, the Marshall Islands, the Samoans as well as the Peruvians (Inca culture), the Maori and the Navajo and suggests some of the number sequences in the non-triangular portion of Akan weaving designs can be linked together in a musical way.
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