Agbenyega Adedze photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Adedze, Agbenyega
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Togo
label: Place
content: Ghana
creator: label: Photographer
content: Adedze, Agbenyega
culture: label: Culture
content: Ewe (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Agbenyega Adedze in 1989 documenting textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo. The trip was funded by the National Museum of African Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 375 Slides (photographs) (includes notes. (1 volume), color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Agbenyega Adedze, 1990.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1990-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Color slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs were taken by Agbenyega Adedze during a Smithsonian-funded trip in 1989.  They document textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo.  Images of a cloth market in Agbozume, Ghana, show activities such as buying and selling thread and all stages of weaving on a narrow strip loom including laying the warp, sewing strips together on a sewing machine, and assembling the finished garment.

Objects depicted include beaters, cloth such as batakali, dyed thread samples, heddle straps, iron pegs, loom foot pedals, reels, shuttles, shuttle bobbins, tool boxes, and weights.  People portrayed include children weaving, cloth sellers, a family of dryers, and weavers.  There are also images of cloth stalls in a market and storefronts.  Festival images, taken in Notse, Togo, show people dressed in Ewe strip-woven cloth.