IDNO

N.107476.MF

Description

Portrait image of a man, the Goodaan, standing in oblique profile in the Tallensi landscape. He wears a close-fitting cap, a thick decorated rope? slung across his body, and armlet on his lower right arm and a loin cover. In his right hand, partially cropped by the lower frame, he holds a gourd rattle. [IG 5/8/2008]

“The Goodaan w. his rattle.” [Fortes' Annotation]

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]