Subject(s): lagenaria siceraria / Genre: 35 mm slide / Location(s): banda / Format: image - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Start Over Subject(s) lagenaria siceraria Genre 35 mm slide Location(s) banda Format image

Description:: A group of men work together, gathered at farm, processing calabash (gourd; chrԑ in Nafaanra) for market sale. The calabash is split, its pulpy interior removed, and the gourd's interior surface scraped clean before drying. Shavings from this thinning process are scattered about on the ground. Several children are gathered nearby as the men work. A basket sits next to a pile of prepared calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra). Farm near Ahenkro, August, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Calabash; Men's work
Subjects Facet:: Lagenaria siceraria; Baskets; Agriculture; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
Identifier:: 22
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda
Date Digitized:: 2019-05-28
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Mark McIntyre

Description:: A cashew tree (Anacardium sp.) grows in an agricultural field planted (foreground) with calabash (Lagenaria siceraria). Sampson Attah stands near the tree. Calabash has long been grown as a cash crop for local and regional sale in the Banda area. When cashew trees were first planted in the area from the mid-1990s, they were grown singly or in small numbers. A growing shift to cashew farming in the area during the early 2000s was accompanied by the planting of large stands of cashew trees referred to locally as "plantations." Banda area, June, 1995.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1995-06
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Cashew; Anacardium; Agricultural field
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Farming;Gourd, calabash; Lagenaria siceraria; Cash crop
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1995
Date searchable:: 1995-06
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda, Bono, Ghana
Date Digitized:: 2020
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