IDNO

LS.103362.MF

Description

"The senior Pɔŋayabelis attending to the preparation of the beer at a funeral." [Fortes' annotation on P.137244.MF]

A Tallensi woman? bending over by some large pots, "cooking the beer for a funeral". In the background, there are a group of conical, thatched, adobe huts of a Tallensi compound. [Description from record P.103314.MF, JD 26/09/2017]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

circa 1934 - 1937

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Lanternslide - Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.103357.MF - LS.103362.MF were kept in the box now numbered C565/.

Publication: Image published in Fortes, M., 1945. The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi: Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe. Oxford University Press, Plate VIII, p.161, with the caption: "(b) One of the senior clan-sisters (Pɔŋayablis) of the deceased supervises the cooking of the beer for his funeral rites." [ED 16/5/2008]

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 19/5/2008]