IDNO

N.101813.MF

Description

“A Namnam girl going to visit the Golofdamma’s compound. She posed carrying presents from her people there.” The girl has a shaved head, wearing waist bands, armlet, bracelet and necklet and stands posed in side profile carrying a large woven basket of goods on her head. The basket is topped with an upturned calabash bowl. She is standing near the low boundary wall of a compound with trees in the background. [AF 7/5/2008]

Physical Condition: Uneven development resulting in a line going from top left to bottom right.

Place

W Africa; Ghana; Upper East Region [Gold Coast; Northern Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Golofdamma

Photographer

?Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

January 1934 - April 1937

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Glass Negative Halfplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.101811.MF - N.101821.MF were kept in the box now numbered C545/.

The inscription on the metal box numbered C545/ does not fully correspond with the contents. [Jocelyne Dudding 10/4/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: Fortes, Meyer, 1945. Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press).

Bibliographical Reference: Fortes, Meyer, 1949. The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press).

Bibliographical Reference: Fortes, Meyer, 1987. Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays on Tallensi Religion (London: Oxford University Press).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 10/4/2007] [Alicia Fentiman 15/4/2008]