Maps and tables, [1930s-1960s]
Scope and Contents
Comprises:
i) Printed map of Tongo showing social divisions, rolled in a larger piece of tracing paper. Undated.
ii) Table showing monthly variations in the price of commodities sold at market. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. Undated [1930s].
iii) Table showing monthly variations in the price of commodities sold at market. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. Possibly an earlier version of ii) above. Repaired with tape and now brittle and disintegrating. Undated [1930s].
iv) Chart showing [?] Tallensi genealogy. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. Undated.
v) Two charts showing male and female birth rates. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. Undated.
vi) Tables showing monthly variations in the price of commodities sold at market. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. 1934 and 1936. 3 tables in one roll.
vii) Rough chart recording composition of family, property and livestock of Indeiso, Siy, Imarra, Baripeta, Lujani and other named peoples over various dates in a calendar year. Sheets secured together with tape, now brittle and disintegrating.
viii) Incomplete chart showing a circular representation of peoples and groups in Tongo. In the hand of Meyer Fortes. Undated.
ix) 'Tongo labour analysis': a revised version of vii) above.
x) Map of Tongo 'surveyed by D.S.A. Commey, supervised by Meyer Fortes, Northern Territories, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]', Dec. 1934. Very creased and folded. Together with handwritten notes recording the distances between locations.
xi) Map of section of farms in Puhug section 'surveyed by D.S.A. Commey, supervised by Meyer Fortes, Northern Territories, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]', Dec. 1934. Folded, creased and brittle.
xii) Tracing of map of section of farms in Puhug section [i.e. tracing of xi)].
Dates
- Creation: [1930s-1960s]
Creator
- From the Fonds: Fortes, Meyer, 1906-1983 (anthropologist) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Catalogued material (except for noted restricted correspondence) is available for consultation, but readers are advised that copyright remaining in the writings of Meyer Fortes is the property of his daughter, whose permission is necessary for publication.
Extent
12 rolled item(s)
Repository Details
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