Cooking area for members of kukangtan musical group performing at a memorial, also called second funeral, for a deceased person, Kakpongpon Village, Sierra Leone
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- 833/1978-1980
- General
- Title source: Dr. Simon Ottenberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- Photographer
- Ottenberg, Simon
- Collection Photographer
- Ottenberg, Simon
- Place
- Africa
- Sierra Leone
- Topic
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Domestic scenes
- Shrines
- Photographer
- Ottenberg, Simon
- Culture
- Limba (African people)
- See more items in
- Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples
- Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples / Series 1: Limba Peoples, Sierra Leone and Guinea / 1.1: Field Research, Year One / Kakpongpon Village, Sierra Leone
- Extent
- 1 Slide (col.)
- Date
- 1978-1980
- Custodial History
- Donated by Simon Ottenberg, 2000.
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.2005-001, Item EEPA 2005-0001-0813
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides
- Color slides
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Photographs by Pa Huff, Hamaidu Mansaray, and Labelle Prussin are restricted. In these cases, the photographer's permission is required for access and publication of images.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, while on an Art Historical and Anthropological Field Research from October of 1978 through July of 1980.
- Original title reads, "Grave of the dead woman, right, near the goat. Tamoi's daughter standing in background with a pan. It is Tamoi's group's cooking area in back. The family giving the funeral gives musicians rice and sauce and pots and dishes and they usually cook for themselves. For the mayoi musical group also, the musicians will bring their wives to cook. For Gundu also, women come, you give them these things, they cook for themselves. Only cook for a stranger musical male who does not come with a woman. As when I go to the village with my field assistant Hamidu alone, but if Fatimata, my female field assistant comes they expect her to cook, which I do not want her to do, as she is there to assist me." [Ottenberg field research notes, Limba Slides and Photographs, October 1978-July 1980].
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Other Archival Materials
- Simon Ottenberg Papers are located at the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536868297930-1536868298607-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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