IDNO

N.107546.MF

Description

Half-length portrait of an elderly woman leaning against an adobe column?. She smiles directly into the camera. [IG 11/8/2008]

“Kuch’s wife Sanii.” [Fortes' Annotation]

“A Tale grandmother.” [Fortes’ Caption]

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.

Publication: Image published in Fortes, Meyer, 1945. Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press), plate IIa, with the following caption:
“A Tale grandmother.”

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Imogen Gunn 11/8/2008]