IDNO

N.135127.MF

Description

"64a. The Kambaŋr Sakpantuur; in position in a cleft in the rock, on which the Gɔlib drums are ?pibier covered with leaves. It consists of a stick about 5 1/2 - 6 ft the top covered v. roughly & v. anciently to represent a human body - rough arms, trunk, & esp. head, w. ears formally carved, as sketch [on journal page]; decorated w. hawk's wings & pɛraa lɔma - the strip of skin running under a sheeps belly (?) wh. fly in in the wind as it is shaken." [Fortes' annotation]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer; or Fortes, Sonia

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

March 1935

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.135061.MF - N.135170.MF were located in a black notebook, now numbered C770/2.