IDNO

N.102202.MF

Description

Full-length, frontal view of two Tallensi men and two Tallensi women standing in the foreground. The two men are wearing woven cloths draped in the toga-style and they are carrying hoes on their shoulders. The two women in the centre are wearing girdles and appear to be carrying pots on their heads.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

?Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

?July - ?September 1934

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Glass Negative Halfplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.102199.MF - N.102205.MF were kept in the box now numbered C553/.

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, 15/8/2007] [Alicia Fentiman, 30/4/2008]