IDNO

N.107474.MF

Description

“The Goodaan.”[Fortes' Annotation on P.135438.MF]

Portrait image of a men and a woman standing and sitting outside adobe compound walls. The Goodaan stands in the centre in oblique profile, hands on his hips. He wears a thick decorated rope? slung across his body and a loin cover. Behind him, two men sit in the shade of the adobe compound and a woman stands looking at the camera, wearing a perineal band. In the distance is another compound and trees. [IG 5/8/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

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.107444.MF - N.107479.MF were kept in brown film roll, 28/69, frames 45 - 35, now numbered C580/23.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Imogen Gunn 5/8/2008]