a small wooden piece of Ghana art carved into three wise monkeys, depicting "say no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" the color is black 5.5inx7in the names of those monkey are Nyansafou Miensa, an Akan meaning the 3 wise monkeys the origins come from of what it means is more often used to express the idea of alienation and ignorance than to convey the religious idea of "hear, see and speak no evil"'