IDNO

N.107533.MF

Description

"The rite of his Tɔbg - his son & ?Barinoda walk round the compound with shoe + ?pɛnig + bar." [Fortes' annotation on P.135488.MF]

Portrait image of a young boy and a man walking around the compound. The young boy walks past an adobe yir (house) with a pointed thatch roof - probably the dead man’s house. Outside the house is a trunk and a shrine. Following the boy, and cropped by the left frame, is an older man who carries a staff. Part of funeral ceremony. [IG 8/8/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

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]