Funtunfunefu Denkyemfunefu: One Stomach, Two Biting Heads

Funtunfunefu Denkyemfunefu is unusual among Adinkra designs for depicting an outright dispute rather than a virtue already achieved: two crocodile bodies are drawn sharing one stomach yet biting toward each other's necks, a composition that states the proverb's contradiction visually before any gloss is needed. Willis records the proverb in close to its full form, that though the crocodiles share one stomach, they fight over the food they eat, a picture of self-defeating conflict between parties whose fates are already, materially, joined.

The design's two-headed, single-bodied structure is among the more anatomically elaborate in the whole corpus, requiring a carver to render two believable crocodile heads convincingly turned against each other while keeping the shared body legible as one connected form, a demand Willis notes sets it apart from the simpler single-figure animal stamps such as Denkyem alone. Willis notes carvers sometimes simplify the composition for a smaller stamp by reducing the two heads to a single shared silhouette with two sets of jaws rather than fully separate bodies, a craft accommodation to stamp size that does not change the proverb the design carries, since the shared-stomach, opposed-heads logic survives even in the reduced form.