IDNO

N.107483.MF

Description

“The homestead of a maximal lineage head, the Gbizug Tεndaana. Note the ancestor shrines in front of the gateway (X).” [Fortes’ Caption on P.100706.MF]

“The House of the Gbizug Tεndaan. Roofing in progress.” [Fortes' Annotation on P.135448.MF]

Landscape image of an adobe compound composed of several yir (houses) with peaked thatched roofs. The second roof from the right is being thatched, and a man sits atop it. A tree is immediately in front of the compound and a child walks past. [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 now numbered C580/24.

Publication: Image published in: Fortes, Meyer, 1949. The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press), p. 48, Plate 3b, with the following caption:
“The homeseated of a maximal lineage head, the Gbizug Tεndaana. Note the ancestor shrines in front of the gateway (X).”

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