Costly Cloth
42" x 32"
Charcoal drawing and engraving inks on board

If a poor person wears a costly cloth, it is like cloth on the stump of a tree.

However precious a possession a poor person has, it is not regarded as worth anything. If he or she wears gold, it is regarded as brass and he or she is despised even when he or she wears precious clothes.

From Hearing and Keeping, Akan Proverbs, Vol 2. Kofi Asare Opoku