Drummer Ghana

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Photograph taken by Janet Stanley of a young man at the summer workcamp in Awudome-Tsito, Ghana, summer of 1967. The man is playing a drum during the recreation period in the afternoon. The drum is of Ewe style and its making was commissioned by Janet Stanley from an Ewe drum maker in Awudome-Tsito; the drum head is of monkey skin.

Collection

Janet Stanley Ghana photographs

Catalog date

1967

Recorded places

Africa; Ghana

Cataloged creator or photographer

Stanley, Janet

Format and extent

1 Slides (photographs) ((1 v., col.)

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