IDNO

N.102923.MF

Description

Three-quarter length frontal portrait of a Tallensi? family (mother, father and daughter?) standing in the foreground. The man is wearing a tunic-style top with long sleeves and trousers, while the woman is wearing a printed cloth wrapper. The woman is holding a small child who is wearing a white dress.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.102843.MF - P.103045.MF were found in a “Kodak Photographic Paper” box now numbered C560/.

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 28/3/2008]