IDNO

N.102284.MF

Description

Meyer Fortes receiving a haircut by possibly Sonia Fortes? on the right and a second European woman. Meyer sits on a wooden folding chair with a towel around his shoulder and is reading a journal. There is a wooden table on the left. In the background are adobe and thatched roof huts.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Meyer Fortes; ?Sonia Fortes

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

?September 1936 - ?January 1937

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.102243.MF - N.102348.MF were found in the negative album now numbered C556/.

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, 7/5/2008]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 31/10/2012]