IDNO

N.107480.MF

Description

“Views of Gbizug Tεndaan's koog hanging in the Tεηnferig alcove.” [Fortes' Annotation]

Portrait image of the adobe walls of a compound. From a peg in the walls hangs a koog (mesh bag containing gourds). [IG 6/8/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Gbizug Tεndaana

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.107480.MF - N.107515.MF were kept in brown film roll, 29/321, frames 1 - 36, now numbered C580/24.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Imogen Gunn 6/8/2008]