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11. Splitting calabash prior to removing its seeds and pulp, Banda, 1982
- Description:
- Joshua Tandor uses a metal blade and a mallet to split a calabash (chrԑ in Nafaanra) in half. The pulp and seeds are removed and the calabash walls scraped clean before being set aside to dry. The resulting calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ) are sold at market while the seeds are a prized soup ingredient (fnumu). Farmstead on the outskirts of Banda-Ahenkro, August, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Men's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Lagenaria siceraria; Agriculture; Cutting tools; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
- Identifier:
- 18
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-08
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
12. Processing calabash bowls, Banda, 1982
- Description:
- Nduo Wulo Kwadwo at farm, preparing calabash (gourd) bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) for market. After removing the pulp and seeds, he scrapes the gourd's interior surface with a metal blade to clean and thin its walls before drying. Farm on the outskirts of Banda-Ahenkro, August, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Men's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Lagenaria siceraria; Agriculture; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
- Identifier:
- 16
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-08
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
13. Processing calabash ladles, Banda, 1982
- Description:
- Young men prepare calabash (gourd; chrԑ in Nafaanra) ladles for market. The calabash is split, its pulpy interior removed, and the gourd's interior surface scraped clean before drying. Banda, July, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Men's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Lagenaria siceraria; Agriculture; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
- Identifier:
- 15
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-07
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
14. Calabash bowls drying at a farmstead, Banda, 1982
- Description:
- Cleaned calabash (gourd) bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) drying at Nduo Wulo Kwadwo's farm on the outskirts of Banda-Ahenkro, August, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Farm shelter
- Subjects Facet:
- Lagenaria siceraria; Agriculture; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
- Identifier:
- 23
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-08
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
15. Intercropped farm field near Banda-Ahenkro, 1982
- Description:
- Typical farm from the 1980s, showing intercropping of yams (finyjie in Nafaanra), cassava (dwa), calabash (chrԑ) or gourd and other crops. Banda, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Banda
- Subjects:
- Farm fields
- Subjects Facet:
- Yams; Lagenaria siceraria; Intercropping; Agriculture; Farming; Gourd, Calabash; Cassava
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Banda
- Date Digitized:
- 2018
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Ann B. Stahl
16. Women pounding yam fufu, New Yam Festival, Ahenkro, 1982
- Description:
- The New Yam Festival (Finjie Lie in Nafaanra) marks the day when people can begin to eat the new crop of yams (finyjie in Nafaanra). Here women gather round a wooden mortar to pound cooked yam tubers to make fufu. Women pound with heavy, round-ended pestles. Working together, they use their pestles to pound and turn the fufu. Pestles hit the mortar's edge as they pound, creating a rhythmic accompaniment to their work. The musical sound of women and their helpers pounding fufu or grain was an integral part of the soundscape of village life in the earlier times. To the rear (right) calabashes (gourds, chrԑ in Nafaanra) wrapped in netting are ready to be sent to market. To the front sits a pottery grinding bowl (left), a calabash (center) and metal cooking pots (right). Ahenkro, 30 August, 1982.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Relation:
- https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17147 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17149
- Location(s) Facet:
- Ahenkro
- Subjects:
- Techniques; New Yam Festival; Fufu; Finyjie Lie (Festival); Women's work; Pounding; Metal pots
- Subjects Facet:
- Yams; Food preparation; Food processing; Mortars & pestles; Gourd, Calabash; Markets; Pottery
- Identifier:
- 4
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1982
- Date searchable:
- 1982-08-30
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.164591, -2.355672
17. Women preparing food, Ahenkro, 1986
- Description:
- Women in the central courtyard of a house compound in Ahenkro prepare the evening meal. A woman seated in the foreground readies dishes while women in the background cook over clustered hearths. A number of low stools are placed amidst a variety of metal, plastic and fired clay containers including buckets and pots. Calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) are among the containers being used. A repurposed metal drum (center, back) holds water for household purposes. A raised platform is stacked with firewood brought by the women from farm and stored until needed. Thatch- and metal-roofed rooms surround the courtyard. Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Ahenkro
- Subjects:
- Metal pots; Plastic containers; Water barrels; Women's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Food preparation; Thatched roofs; Mortars & pestles; Metal roofing; Gourd, Calabash; Courtyards; Firewood; Hearths
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1986
- Date searchable:
- 1986-07/08
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.164591, -2.355672
18. Diesel-fueled corn mill, Banda-Ahenkro, 2009
- Description:
- A man operates a diesel-powered corn mill in a roofed shed while another adjusts a grain bag nearby. He grinds grain into a plastic container resting in a headpan. Another headpan filled with maize (corn, bledju in Nafaanra) sits in front with a calabash used as a scoop sitting on top. Other plastic and metal containers sit nearby. Diesel-powered grinding mills first began to be set up in Ahenkro in the 1980s. They have become more common over the years, reducing the need for maize and other dried foodstuffs to be pounded by hand in wooden mortars. At the same time, they have expanded the need for cash income as grinding has become part and parcel of household budgets. Ahenkro, 2009.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Ahenkro
- Subjects:
- Diesel engine; Automation; Headpans; Plastic containers; Men's work
- Subjects Facet:
- Grain mills; Gourd, Calabash; Grinding; Corn
- Creator:
- Devin Tepleski
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 2009
- Date searchable:
- 2009
- Genre Facet:
- Digital image
- Location(s):
- Ahenkro;8.164591, -2.355672
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.164591, -2.355672
19. Pounding calabash seeds (fnumu), Ahenkro, 1986
- Description:
- Young boys (Kofi and Isaac, sons of James Anane) pound calabash seeds in preparation for making calabash seed soup (fnumu chiin in Nafaanra). They use a deep wooden mortar and pestles rounded at the base. A metal roof shelters the hearth in the background. A chicken searches for food as the boys work. Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Ahenkro
- Subjects:
- Fnumu; Children's work; Pounding
- Subjects Facet:
- Lagenaria siceraria; Food processing; Mortars & pestles; Hearths; Gourd, Calabash; Chickens
- Creator:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1986
- Date searchable:
- 1986-07/08
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Ahenkro;8.163178, -2.356290
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.163178, -2.356290
20. Hearths in Dorbour, 1994
- Description:
- Hearths in a Dorbour household. One of three visible hearths is in use, a metal cooking pot suspended over a fire fueled by firewood. A wooden mortar and several pestles are at ready in the background. In the foreground (right) a clay cooking pot rests on top of a metal basin that has been re-purposed as a pot stand. A large metal pot, a calabash bowl (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra) and a plastic cup sit behind the clay pot. Dorbour, 1994.
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Location(s) Facet:
- Dorbour
- Subjects:
- Metal pots; Plastic containers
- Subjects Facet:
- Food preparation; Mortars & pestles; Hearths; Gourd, Calabash; Pottery; Firewood
- Identifier:
- 19
- Creator:
- Dr. M. Dores Cruz
- Contributors:
- Dr. Ann B. Stahl
- Date searchable:
- 1994
- Date searchable:
- 1994
- Genre Facet:
- 35 mm slide
- Location(s):
- Dorbour;8.090342, -2.517137
- Date Digitized:
- 2016
- Commentary:
- Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
- Geographic Coordinates:
- 8.090342, -2.517137