IDNO

LS.103406.MF

Description

Full-length frontal view of a young child holding a small baby in one arm and a rattle in the other hand. "A young nursemaid, amusing herself and the baby with the Kinkayax rattle."

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 C571/.

Publication: Image published in Fortes, Myer. 1970. Time and Social Structure, (University of London - Athlone Press), p. 252, with the caption: "1a. A young nursemaid, amusing herself and the baby with the Kinkayax rattle."

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 22/5/2008]