IDNO

T.103503.MF

Description

Full-length, frontal view of an Maasi? woman wearing an orange cloth robe and shawl and, what appears to be, lengths of beads extending from her ears. She is also wearing rings of beads around her neck. Behind her, there are two other women seated on a log wearing the same clothing.

Place

W Africa; Ghana; ?Accra; ?Kumasi [Gold Coast; Northern Territories]

Cultural Affliation

?Maasi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

1963

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Transparency - Colour Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.103499.MF - T.103511.MF were kept in the box now numbered C576/.

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 27/5/2008]