IDNO

P.137480.MF

Description

From left to right: Four generations. L Nyaaŋʒum, his own mother with his infant son, his older half (deceased) half brother's son who married his mother after his father's death and bought him up." [Fortes' annotation]

Four generations of a family sitting outside the entrance to an adobe built dwelling. In the middle is grandmother with her grandson, crawling up to her. She is sitting beside her son on the left, wearing a cloth over his shoulder, and her husband on the right. A variety of pots and calabash bowls are stacked on the left with a bundle of thatch against the wall of the interconnecting buildings of the homestead decorated with bands of incised geometric patterns.
Reproduction of photograph pasted on proof page published as Plate 13 in The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi. [SW 16/3/2007, description from record P.100651.MF , JD 03/11/2017]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Nyaaŋʒum

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

January 1934 - April 1937

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.136463.MF - P.137502.MF were located in a cardboard box now numbered C616/.

P.137480.MF - P.137490.MF were located in a brown envelope now numbered C616/22.

Bibliographical Reference: Fortes, Meyer, 1945. Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press).

Bibliographical Reference: Fortes, Meyer, 1949. The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi (London: Oxford University Press). Image published as Plate 13b and captioned: “Four generations. From left to right: Nyaanzum [another script], his own mother with his infant son, his older (deceased) half brother’s son, who married his mother after his father’s death and brought him up”(page facing 272).