IDNO

T.103522.MF

Description

A young Tallensi woman? crushing new naara? (early millet) or house building?. She? appears to be wearing funeral dress. A young boy is standing in the foreground holding an unidentifiable object. In the background, there are other young boys in an open landscape. In the distance, to the right, there is a group of Tallensi huts (pointed, thatched, adobe huts) - the Tallensi compound.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Ashanti

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).

Context: Domestic Organization in Relation to Agriculture and Crops. The staple crop is millet (generically, ki) of which there are three kinds, early millet (naara: pennisetum typhoideum); guinea corn (ki specifically, each variety being known by a special term, e.g. kutok, kazii & c.: sorgum vulgare); and late millet (za: pennisetum spicatum). These with a small amount of rice (mui: orzya sativa) occupy 92 per cent. of the area cultivated in the Zuarangu district. (Fortes, M., and Fortes, S.L., 1936, Africa: Journal of the international African Institute, Vol. 9, No. 2, Problems of African Native Diet, pp. 242-243.). [ED 27/11/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 27/5/2008]