IDNO

N.102724.MF

Description

A group of women and children along the river washing their clothes. In the right of the photograph is a wooden canoe. [AF 02/06/2008]

Physical Condition: Badly damaged negative from water. [ED 25/2/2008]

Place

W Africa; Ghana; Upper East Region [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.102655.MF - N.102841.MF were kept in the box now numbered C559/.

N.102695.MF - N.102729.MF are found together of of the negative film, "Roll 2" (Frames 2-27 + 29-32 + 34-38), now numbered C559/3.

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). [ED 25/2/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 25/2/2008]