IDNO

N.102622.MF

Description

“The Giηgang ηaaη [Ginjgang njaanj] - bound for Bari.” [Fortes' Annotation]

Full-length portrait of a Tallensi man with a large drum (The Giηgang ηaaη [Ginjgang njaanj]) hung over his shoulder and standing in a grassy field on his way to Baju. The man is wearing cloth tied around his waist and metal arm ornaments. [AF 13/6/2008

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

?February - ?April 1934

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.102560.MF - N.102652.MF were kept in the negative album “IV” now numbered C558/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding, 1/11/2007]

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. [Elisabeth Deane 21/2/2008]