IDNO

N.107530.MF

Description

“Water heating rite - Ta’aη supervises.” [Fortes' Annotation]

Part of a funeral ceremony of three men standing over a large bowl for 'water heating rite'. The man on the left, with his hands on his knees, wears a wide-brimmed hat. A woman, wearing a perineal band and a ‘tail’ bends over the bowl with her back to the camera. A third person is obscured by her shadow. They all stand in a dusty Tallensi landscape. [IG 8/8/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ta’aη

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

April 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.107516.MF - N.107551.MF were kept in brown film roll, 30/321/2, frames 1 - 36, now numbered C580/25.

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