ABSTRACT
Some of our favorite cultural cyborgs involve heritage algorithms, the computational activities embedded in the iterative patterns of Navajo weaving, the recursive transformations of African American cornrows, the Least Common Multiples of Latinx drumming, and so forth. Our friends in the Boakye family of Ntonso use traditional methods, pounding the bark and boiling it for days, in order to reduce it to ink for stamping adinkra symbols into the cloth they weave. Many adinkra symbols feature logarithmic curves, because they are modeling organic growth curves in horns, claws, fluid turbulence, and other natural forms. Paul Boakye, an adinkra master carver, created sets of miniature adinkra stamps for the project. When we first proposed that the normally five-inch stamps be reduced to one inch, his brother Gabriel said this would be impossible. But Paul looked like he had waited all his life for this challenge, and he wore an ear to ear grin when he presented the final result.
