IDNO

T.103498.MF

Description

Full length, portrait of a Tallensi chief? wearing ceremonial dress (a dark blue long-sleeved tunic with coloured squares sewn onto it) and a mitre-style cap. The chief? appears to be holding an elaborate fly whisk? with a carved handle and he is seated on a mound of adobe. A small Tallensi? child is standing in front of him wearing a blue cloak with red trimming. In the background, there are a group of Tallensi people wearing white? tunics and vests standing in front of two pointed, thatched, adobe huts (Tallensi compound).

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

1963

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Lanternslide - Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.103473.MF - T.103498.MF were kept in the box now numbered C575/.

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 23/5/2008]