IDNO

N.107544.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 three women clustered outside the doorway of the dead man’s adobe yir (house). Each woman wears a perineal band, and two of them hold staffs?. The yir is decorated with gourds, baskets, etc. handing from the rafters. Behind them, a woman walks away holding an umbrella. 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]