IDNO

LS.103405.MF

Description

Squatting in the courtyard outside a Tallensi hut there is a young Tallensi man and a boy holding a few pieces of millet? in their hands. In the background, there is a young Tallensi woman wearing a girdle and holding a small child, while standing outside the doorway of a Tallensi hut. The ground is covered with millet.

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

Lanternslide - Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.103397.MF - LS.103405.MF were kept in the box now numbered C570/.

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).

Context: Domestic Organization in Relation to Agriculture and Crops. The staple crop is millet (generically, ki) of which there are three kinds, early millet (naara: pennisetum typhoideum); guinea corn (ki specifically, each variety being known by a special term, e.g. kutok, kazii & c.: sorgum vulgare); and late millet (za: pennisetum spicatum). These with a small amount of rice (mui: orzya sativa) occupy 92 per cent. of the area cultivated in the Zuarangu district. (Fortes, M., and Fortes, S.L., 1936, Africa: Journal of the international African Institute, Vol. 9, No. 2, Problems of African Native Diet, pp. 242-243.). [ED 27/11/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 21/5/2008]