IDNO

N.107326.MF

Description

“Kologo dancing to the incitement of older woman.” [Fortes' Annotation on P.135231.MF]

A young boy, in profile, in the lower left corner standing next to an older woman, cropped by the left frame. The young boy, Kologo, wears a bracelet on each wrist, an armlet on his left upper arm, and a necklace. He appears to be dancing. Kologo and the other woman stand in front of two adobe structures with thatched roofs. In the extreme right foreground, the head of a young boy? is cropped by the right frame. [IG 24/7/2008]

Physical Condition: The negative has been cut or ripped between frame 13 and frame 14, and both sections are stored together.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Kologo; Duun

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

1936 - 1937

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.106678.MF - N.108070.MF were kept in a brown cardboard box numbered C580/.

N.107301.MF - N.107336.MF were kept in brown film 'Roll 22/89/2' (frames 1 - 36) now numbered C580/19.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Imogen Gunn 15/7/2008]