the Adan also called Ada, Ade, Adangbe, are a small ethnic group living in an area between Ghana and Togo . they are cousins of the Ewe, who arrived together from southern Nigeria . it is a little-known and little-studied cultural group . their creations incorporate abstraction and cubism and are often endowed with a naive or primitive touch . their sculptures are painted or covered with kaolin or even other pigments . .