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]