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1. Banda Traditional Council meeting, Ahenkro, August 1986

Description:: A group of men and women stand in the doorways of the Banda Traditional Council building as the Traditional Council holds a meeting inside. The colonial-period building's interior is lit by natural light through large windows, with several panes of window glass intact on the rear side of the building. Several young people sit on the steps of the building. Visible to the left is the metal-roofed colonial-period village clinic and residence of the village nurse who was in this period the primary medical care personnel for the Banda area. Ahenkro, 12 August, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Colonial period buildings; Banda Traditional Council
Subjects Facet:: Colonies
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08-12
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.162784, -2.357505
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.162784, -2.357505

2. Male and female heads of family, Loobia Katoo, 1986

Description:: Family history interview with Elders of Loobia Katoo dressed in customary attire for the Yualie Festival celebrated at the harvest time for sorghum and millet. Loobia Katoo supplies the custodian of the Jafun shrine to which offerings are made during the Yualie Festival. The family brought the shrine to Banda from Senyon (Northern Region) during the time of Dabla, paramount chief of Banda. In the background (left) calabash (gourd) bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) are set out to dry. Left: custodian of the Jafun shrine, Kwadwo Kamiekunu (Jafun Bͻͻnyiifun); right: Amman Nyiimor (female head), 24 July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17488
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Family history; Loobia Katoo
Subjects Facet:: Rites and ceremonies; Oral history; Gourd, Calabash
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-24
Genre:: Black-and-white negative
Genre Facet:: Black-and-white negative
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Negative scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

3. Banda Cultural Centre, Ahenkro, 2001

Description:: The Banda Cultural Centre provides space for community gatherings and guest rooms for Banda Research Project and other community visitors. The Centre's motto/logo is "Nyu nunu," (Nafaanra) or "Unity." Commissioned in 1995, the main building was constructed in 1994-95 through a combination of Banda Research Project funding and communal labor supplied by Ahenkro's four Unit Committees. The free-standing annex (right in photo) was added in 2000. It houses additional guest rooms and storage and was also built through a combination of Banda Research Project funding and communal labor. The building is administered and maintained by the community. Ahenkro, July 2001.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17338 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17133 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17533
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Banda Cultural Centre; Unit committees; Communal labor
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 2001
Date searchable:: 2001-07
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.165961, -2.354312
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.165961, -2.354312

4. Members of Yaw Dabla Katoo, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Family history interview with members of Yaw Dabla Katoo: Kwaku Zuku (Apamhene; left) and Jonathan Kwabena Miwo (middle), Ahenkro, 24 July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17500
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Family history; Yaw Dabla Katoo
Subjects Facet:: Oral history
Creator:: Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-24
Genre:: Black-and-white negative
Genre Facet:: Black-and-white negative
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Negative scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

5. Yaw Fori, Swordbearer, Kafͻnͻ Katoo, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Kafͻnͻ Katoo, Ahenkro, has long provided swordbearers (Bͻͻnfiԑn Yiifun) to the Banda paramount stool. Yaw Fori, pictured here, held the position in 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17484 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16689
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Kafͻnͻ [Kafono] Katoo; Family history; Swordbearers
Subjects Facet:: Oral history
Creator:: Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-29
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

6. Members of Kofi Krԑma Katoo, Ahenkro , 1986

Description:: Family history interview with Elders of Kofi Krԑma [Krema] Katoo. Seated center Donkor Amma, female head; seated right Kwadwo Abedi, male head. Banda-Ahenkro, 13 August, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17486
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Kofi Krԑma [Krema] Katoo; Family history
Subjects Facet:: Oral history
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08-13
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

7. Members of Shiofi Katoo, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Family history interview with Elders of Shiofi Katoo including Kofi Asare (Abakomahene; seated, second from left). Other members of Shiofi Katoo to the right of Asare, Kwabena Dibi, Yaw Krah, and (standing center) Mensah Listowell. Female head Kosua Yablewo, standing, back right. James Anane (interviewer), standing left. Ahenkro, 24 July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17493
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Shiofi Katoo; Family history
Subjects Facet:: Oral history
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-24
Genre:: Black-and-white negative
Genre Facet:: Black-and-white negative
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Negative scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

8. Elders of Kafͻnͻ Katoo, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Family history interview with Elders of Kafͻnͻ Katoo: left, Yaw Fori (Bͻͻnfiԑn Yiifun); right, Kupo Aboateaa, Bamuhene, Ahenkro, 23 July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17484 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16688
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Kafͻnͻ [Kafono] Katoo; Family history
Subjects Facet:: Oral history
Creator:: Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl; James Anane
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07-23
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164591, -2.355672

9. Clay grinding bowl/men's eating bowl, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Large, shallow blackened clay bowls with interior striations are used in cooking and for eating. Cooks use them together with a small double-sided wooden pestle to grind pepper and cooked vegetables like "garden eggs" (small eggplants) for soups. They are also used as men's eating bowls (pԑԑ in Nafaanra). Bowls with striated interiors are occasionally found on archaeological sites in the Banda area, but this particular blackened form was not common until the 20th century when it was introduced from areas to the south. Potters in the region began to produce the bowls for sale both locally and at regional markets. During the 1980s and 1990s, this became one of the most popular pots made for market sale. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Grinding bowls; Marketing ; Bowls; Eating bowls
Subjects Facet:: Food preparation; Foodways; Markets; Pottery
Identifier:: 0
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

10. Fires burning in the hills above Banda-Ahenkro, 1982

Description:: Controlled fire has long been used as a way to improve forage for animals, aid hunting, and amend soil nutrients. Here a controlled burn within Bui National Park is visible on the mountainside west of Ahenkro. The town's thatch-roofed market stands are visible (right) as are branches of the majestic kapok tree that once shaded the market on the south edge of town. Thatched roofs could easily catch fire and Ahenkro suffered major fires several times during the 20th century. Ahenkro, December, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Bui National Park
Subjects Facet:: Controlled burns; Thatched roofs; Villages; Markets
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-12
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.162890, -2.356993
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.162890, -2.356993

11. Clay cooking pots, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: The clay pottery jars (sro chͻ in Nafaanra) used to prepare food vary in size. Round-based jars like these are used to boil yams and other starchy foods. They are supported by hearth stones as they sit on the fire. Their lower surface is often textured or surface-treated with maize cob roulette (visible on the largest pot on the right) which may make them easier to handle when full of liquid and food. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Cooking pots (sro cho); Maize cob roulette; Decoration; Jars
Subjects Facet:: Food preparation; Foodways; Pottery
Identifier:: 0
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

12. Marketplace at Banda-Ahenkro, 1982

Description:: Controlled fires burn in the hills behind Banda-Ahenkro, part of the Bui National Park. The remains of a small grass fire are visible in the foreground. The thatched stalls of the weekly marketplace are visible beneath the majestic kapok tree that once stood at the south edge of town. To the left, near the smaller tree, is the reddish iron roof of the first town clinic, home to a nurse stationed by the goverment in town. Ahenkro experienced several major fires in the 20th century, prompting people to opt for metal roofs when they could afford them. Ahenkro, December, 1982
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16730 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17799 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16751
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Clinic; Bui National Park; Stalls
Subjects Facet:: Building; Controlled burns; Thatched roofs; Landscapes; Metal roofing; Fires; Mountains; Markets
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-12
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

13. Marketplace at Banda-Ahenkro, 1982

Description:: The weekly market at Banda-Ahenkro was formerly held at this marketplace, its thatch-roofed stalls located on the south edge of town beneath a majestic kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra). The tree was downed in a storm in the late 1990s, after which the market was relocated to an adjacent village. Ahenkro, June, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16730; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16729; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17799
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Kapok; Ceiba pentandra; Marketplace
Subjects Facet:: Thatched roofs; Markets
Identifier:: 35
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-07
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

14. Clay jars used to prepare soup, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: In the foreground are two clay pots used to prepare soup. A soup pot (chiin sinyjͻlͻ in Nafaanra) has sharp-angled (carinated) shoulders and an everted rim. They are simply decorated with grooved lines above the shoulder, but otherwise plain. The larger one on the right has been blackened, a treatment that is not commonly seen on archaeological pottery from Banda sites. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Soup pots (chiin sinyjolo); Decoration
Subjects Facet:: Food preparation; Foodways; Pottery
Identifier:: 0
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

15. Main street, Banda-Ahenkro, 1982

Description:: The road from Menji to the Black Volta River passes through the center of Banda-Ahenkro, pictured here in 1982, view to the north. Earthen-walled buildings line the main street. Houses on the right-hand side have thatched roofs while those on the left have metal roofs. People walk in the center of the street as they move about town. Ahenkro, December, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16757
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Main street
Subjects Facet:: Thatched roofs; Roads; Metal roofing; Building, Clay; Villages
Identifier:: 14
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-12
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163211, -2.356557
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163211, -2.356557

16. Clay water-cooling pots, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Clay pots of varied sizes used to store water (chͻkoo in Nafaanra). The exterior surface of these everted-rim jars is textured with maize cob roulette and their surface is decorated with shallow grooved lines. The porous walls of these pots helps keep the liquid storied inside cool. For this reason, these pots are not treated with the bark solution used to finish cooking pots. Also, the narrow opening (neck) of the jar reduces evaporation and conserves water. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Water pots (chokoo); Maize cob roulette; Decoration; Water storage; Jars
Subjects Facet:: Pottery; Water
Identifier:: 0
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

17. Marketplace at Banda-Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: The weekly market at Banda-Ahenkro was formerly held at this marketplace, located on the south edge of town beneath a majestic kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra). Thatched market shelters are visible at the base of the tree. The ancient tree was downed in a storm in the late 1990s. Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16751 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16725 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16729 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17799 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16734
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Ceiba pentandra; Stalls; Trees
Subjects Facet:: Thatched roofs; Markets
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07/08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

18. Women's clay eating bowls, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Small clay bowls (kpokpoo in Nafaanra) used by women for eating. The bowl on the left has been blackened. Blackened pottery is a fashion that became more common in the 20th century. Similar clay bowls from the 19th century and earlier found on archaeological sites are more similar in color to the bowl on the right. In earlier times, these bowls often had a pedestaled base, creating a flat rather than rounded surface on which they sat. Ahenkro, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Eating bowls (kpokpoo); Bowls
Subjects Facet:: Foodways; Pottery
Identifier:: 0
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163438, -2.356776
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163438, -2.356776

19. Primary school students, Ahenkro, 1986

Description:: Primary school students and their teachers pose for a photo outside their thatch-roofed school building on the south side of Ahenkro, July, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Students; Education
Subjects Facet:: Thatched roofs; Building, Clay; Schools
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07/08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.161810, -2.359203
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.161810, -2.359203

20. Pounding fufu in a deep mortar, Ahenkro, 2009

Description:: Young women in the household of Sampson Attah pound cooked yam tubers in a deep mortar to make fufu. Mamee (left) and two other young women use round-ended pestles. Working together, they use the pestles to pound and turn the fufu in a pounding technique typical of food preparation in the Banda area. The pestles create a rhythmic accompaniment to the work as they strike the sides of the mortar. Household of Sampson Attah, Ahenkro, 27 May, 2009. Length: 00:00:54 minutes.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16790 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17149
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Techniques; Fufu; Pounding
Subjects Facet:: Yams; Food preparation; Food processing; Mortars & pestles
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 2009
Date searchable:: 2009-05-27
Genre:: Digital video
Genre Facet:: Digital video
Location(s):: Ahenkro; 8.163219, -2.356356
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Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163219, -2.356356

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