Kente Cloth

Kente is an original Ewe word meaning to open and wear/wrap around. "Ke" means open or spread, "Nate" means and then wrap it around yourself, which is the instruction of use. The Southern Ewes eventually droped the "na" or the "a" from "ke-na-te" and as such therefore "kenate" became "kete" or "kente". The "kente/kete cloth" might be of the Ewe tribe origin.