IDNO

P.137496.MF

Description

"Another children's play group, boys only, playing a game like marbles, using stones. The "stakes" are groundnuts." [Fortes' annotation]

A group of boys playing a game similar to marbles in a field of high grasses. Seven boys sit in a rough circle, with piles of stones in piles. The central boy shakes his hand, probably about to toss one of the stones. Four boys stand, looking on. The boy standing on the right side has scarification on his cheek, two lines running parallel in a dipped line from the inside of his nose to his earlobe. [IG 29/7/2008, description from record N.107036.MF, JD 08/11/2017]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Tallensi

Named Person

Photographer

Fortes, Meyer

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

Post 22 August 1936

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.137491.MF - P.137501.MF were located in a cream envelope now numbered C616/23.