1. Women preparing food, Sabiye, 1986

Description:

Women in the house of Brɛmawuo work together to prepare the main meal of the day. The wives of the house sit on low wooden stools as they prepare food at clustered hearths. Each hearth is made of three laterite stones which hold the cooking pot above the fire. The women use an array of metal cooking vessels, calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) and a clay pot (on the front hearth). The clay pot was likely purchased from one of the potting villages on the west of the Banda hills. Beneath the thatched roof behind the women are hearths used during rainy weather. This house was revisited in November 2018 and several of the women pictured here were interviewed about how foodways have changed over the three decades since this photo was taken. Among the women pictured are (L-R) Adwoa Hana (stirring), Yaa Yaa Dankwa (Stirring), Ama Nwotwenwaa (holding a calabash), Abena Kuma, (standing in blue cloth) and Ama Mensah (standing in red cloth). Sabiye, 15 August 1986.

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Publisher:

University of Victoria Libraries

Relation:

https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17145 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17144

Date:

1986-08-15

Location(s) Facet:

Sabiye

Subjects:

Bremawuo House

Subjects Facet:

Gourd, Calabash; Stools; Cooking; Hearths; Textiles; Food preparation; West African strip weaving; Pottery

Identifier:

0

Creator:

Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Contributors:

Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Date searchable:

1986

Date searchable:

1986-08-15

Genre:

;35 mm slide

Genre Facet:

35 mm slide

Location(s):

Sabiye;8.068359, -2.352164

Date Digitized:

2016

Commentary:

Slide scanned by Veronique Plante

Geographic Coordinates:

8.068359, -2.352164