IDNO

N.107543.MF

Description

“Widows return to compd. after burial - note one goes in via door, others via zɔŋ - the faithful one.” [Fortes' Annotation]

Landscape image of four women walking toward the dead man’s adobe yir (house), partially cropped by the right frame. Each woman wears a perineal band, and the woman in the centre holds a gourd in her right hand. Behind them, under a tree, a group of people look on. Part of funeral ceremony. [IG 11/8/2008]

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 11/8/2008]