The Hat: Ntakerakyɛ (feathered hat) consists of kɔdeɛ ntakra (eagle’s feathers) tied on a leather helmet with sika and dwetɛ nsɛbɛ (gold and silver talismans) in trianglular and rectangular shapes and a leather extension.
The leather with talismans lies in the middle and goes all the way to the back.
The front has gold cast of trɔmo abɛbɛn (rams horn) with afɛma in the middle of the two horns.
Two akyem prɛbuo (akyem bird’s nests) spherical shapes are positioned to the right and left edges of the leather hat. Like the bosomuru hat, adam is placed below the horns.
The back of hat shows several rectangular goldleaf nsɛbɛ sewn on the leather hat.
Green Head Cover: In order to ensure that the leather hat sits tightly on the head, the head is covered with this green material.
It also prevents cuts on the head from the inside of the leather.
The green head cover has a star and a gold talisman on the side.
Once worn, the hat is kept in place by sika ayaneɛ, a gold chain that is tied from the area around the right ear to the left ear.
The akrafokɔnmu is a relatively larger pectoral disc with a pointed mound gold cast in the middle.
Additional items worn around the neck is a wooden collection of nnawuro (sin. dawuro) iron idiophone but carved from a wood and covered with goldleaf and the apurukusu (electric fish) without the head.
There are six smaller nnawuro and one bigger dawuro. The electric fishes number five and are of the same size.
The last item worn around the chest and around the abdomen is the remaining body of amanseɛ pramire (gaboon viper) with trɔmo abɛbɛn (two ram’s horn), with adam in the middle with the gold sash tied over it.
Like the bosomuru, the gold sash is to add accent to the regalia and was originally the fat of the gaboon viper.
The mpɔnpɔnsɔn sword is encased in etwie nnwoma or bɔha (a leopard’s skin sheath).
Close to the hilt is the sɛpɔ type of knife known as kumabrempɔn (killer of chiefs).
Unlike the bosomuru, Asante kings took the mpɔnpɔnsɔn to war and this knife was used in decapitating heads of enemy chiefs.
That is why the Asantehene uses the mpɔnpɔnsɔn to demostrate heroic ideals and his readiness to defend Asanteman when he is dancing fɔntɔmfrom atoprɛtia in combination with the apankantuo.
Abɔsodeɛ is amanseɛ pramire (gaboon viper) that has captured ɔwam (the hornbill).
The mystery of how a snake could capture a hornbill that flies above is a proverb about patience or as the Akan will say, me de asaase anya wam (lit. the earth has given me a hornbill).
In other words, when for some unexplained reason, the hornbill crashed on earth, the viper who was laying patiently on the ground took advantage of the fall and immediately captured the hornbill.
A leopard’s leather with sika ne dwete nsɛbɛ (gold and silver talismans) is attached to the sheath near the viper snake and extends down to the ground.
