Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.058486

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 2//8; handwritten: 4 // 604; handwritten: West Africa / Ghana / People; handwritten: 2 1//4 / 120 / Screen; stamped: CREDIT: / from BLACK STAR / CLIFFORDS INN, LONDON; handwritten: Beven-Rubie; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: 0A27264; typed label: 11. The chief: The Miong-Lana of Sambu sits outside his mud hut / (the doorway of which is decorated with broken china) contemplating / an unsettled future in which the traditional rights of chiefs are / certain to be modified, perhaps whittled away to vanishing point.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: GHANA / PEOPLE- MEN
Retouching: N