IDNO

T.103521.MF

Description

In the foreground, there appears to be a concrete platform with a young boy leaning against it. In the background, there are three Tallensi men wearing long white tunics and cloth caps and they are wheeling along bicycles. Behind them, there are two more Tallensi? men wearing striped woven? tunics (also wheeling along bicycles). In the background, there is a group of pointed, thatched, adobe huts - the 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- 1964

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Lanternslide - Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.103512.MF - T.103536.MF were kept in the box now numbered C577/.

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]