IDNO

LS.103407.MF

Description

"Recreational Play: kuobon (posed)"; Four Tallensi boys in the foreground playing a game?. The boys wear armlets, bracelets and one boy in the foreground appears to be wearing a girdle. [ED 5/22/2008]

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.103406.MF - LS.103407.MF were kept in the box now numbered C571/.

Publication: Image published in Fortes, M., 1970. Time and Social Structure and other Essays. London: The Athlone Press, p. 252 - 253, with the caption: "3a. Recreational Play: kuobon (posed)". [ED 26/2/2008]

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 22/5/2008]