IDNO

LS.103372.MF

Description

View of a large crowd of Tallensi people at a ceremonial occasion?. To the right, Sonia Fortes can be seen, wearing a pith helmet, standing on a rock boulder between a Tallensi man and woman dressed in ceremonial gear. The Tallensi woman is wearing arm ornaments, a beaded necklace (made from a mass of beads), a head band, a girdle and in one hand she is holding an unidentifiable object made from fur. The man (to the right of Sonia) is wearing animal skin? tied at the shoulder, a head band, a loin cloth and flip-flops? as well as other unidentifiable ceremonial regalia.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Mrs Sonia Fortes (nee Donen)

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Lanternslide - Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.103363.MF - LS.103372.MF were kept in the box now numbered C566/.

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 20/5/2008]