IDNO
N.107479.MF
Description
Landscape image of a woman cooking inside a yir (house). She sits with her back to the camera but turns her head in profile. She wears a perineal band with ‘tail’. A number of bowls are scattered over the floor. There is an oven is to the right, and smoke rises from under a bowl immediately in front of it. [IG 5/8/2008]
“Cooking inside.” [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]
FM:242129
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