IDNO

P.137481.MF

Description

"Siblings." [Fortes' annotation]

"The closest kinship tie among the Tallensi, next to that of mother and child, is that between same sex siblings who are children of the same mother. Here are two brothers by the same mother and father." [Fortes' annotation on P.136676.MF]

Two young brothers holding hands stand posing for the camera in a field with a homestead in the background.
Reproduction of photograph pasted on proof page published as Plate 14 in The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi. [Description from record P.100653.MF, JD 8/25/2017]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

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.