Subject(s): rites and ceremony and puberty rite / Date: 2009 / Genre: digital image / Location(s): ahenkro - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Start Over Subject(s) rites and ceremony Subject(s) puberty rite Date 2009 Genre digital image Location(s) ahenkro

Description:: Young girls dress in nubility attire for the annual Children's Day sponsored by local schools. They wear snail shell necklaces and have applied white paint to their face, chest and midriff. This attire is associated with the nubility ceremonies of groups from southern Ghana and is adopted here as a generic form of ritual costume. L-R: Yaa Naa (in profile); Akosua Kojie (yellow head scarf); Naomi (back row); Isha Brimah (vertical stripes); Atta Forkour (center front); Yaa Manu (behind); Florence (behind); Akua Yaa Wale (red & black head scarf); Shallot Vasco (far right). Ahenkro, 23 June, 2009.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Banda Cultural Centre; Children's day; Nubility rites
Subjects Facet:: Rites and ceremonies; Puberty rites
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 2009
Date searchable:: 2009-06-23
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.165961, -2.354312
People Facet:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.165961, -2.354312

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