Regula Tschumi has spent time in East, West and South Africa, researching into contemporary African art.
[2] In this book she traces the origins of these coffins in the art and religion of the Ga, and questions the history of their evolution.
In the course of this research Regula Tschumi discovered the coffin-artist and art brut painter Ataa Oko, born 1919, from La, in Ghana.
Palanquins belong to the powerful royal insignias which in the Ga culture may never be buried.
[4] Regula Tschumi has taken part in various exhibition projects in leading museums,[5] when she worked with different Ghanaian artists and coffin-palanquin-makers like Paa Joe, Ataa Oko and Kudjoe Affutu among others.