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Kumasi Central Market and Ghana Field Images

Woman trader showing her cloth
boys loading yam truck
cloth stalls
truck stuck in road
girl with jewelry stall
bargaining at the farmgate
sorting at the farmgate
Christmas biscuits
Women glass vendor with child
Orange Queenmother Husband's Funeral II
Mobile Trader at Yam Yards
tomato trader in KCM shed
Orange Queenmother Husband's Funeral
pounding two fufusin courtyard

About Kumasi Central Market and Ghana Field Images

Photographs of Kumasi Central Market (Ghana), one of the largest marketplaces in West Africa. A 1979 survey found its traders were 70% women and 70% from the locally dominant Asante ethnic group. The images show retail and wholesale areas, street scenes, special events, portraits of traders and their home life in this and other related trading sites in Kumasi and throughout Ghana. Black and white photos by Gracia Clark during ethnographic fieldwork 1978-80. Color images from slides by Gracia Clark and Carmen Paz, date from 1979 to 2006, as noted.

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Date
- 1970-1979 [210]
  
  1979 [210]
- 1980-1989 [17]
  
  1983 [15]
  
  1984 [2]
- 1990-1999 [49]
  
  1990 [1]
  
  1991 [22]
  
  1994 [11]
  
  1995 [15]
Image Type
- Black & white negative [36]
- Slide [266]
City
- Accra [4]
- Axim [2]
- Kokrobite [1]
- Kumasi [218]
- Kumasi? [1]
- Navrongo [1]
- Subinso [12]
- Tamale [2]
- Techiman? [2]
Topic
- Markets [122]
- Women [70]
- Yams [40]
- Portraits [30]
- Funeral rites & ceremonies [29]
- Men [20]
- Houses [16]
- Queenmother [15]
- Onions [13]
- Children [12]
- Accounting [1]
- Agricultural marketing [1]
- Akwasidae [1]
- Asantehene [2]
- Bakers [1]
- Banks [1]
- Bargaining [2]
- Boys [1]
- Buildings [1]
- Bus stops [1]
- Bus terminals [1]
- Cassava [1]
- Chiefs [1]
- Child labor [4]
- Child laborers [1]
- Child rearing [2]
- Children [12]
- Christmas [1]
- Churches [2]
- City & town life [1]
- Cloth [3]
- Cloth prints [4]
- Clothing & dress [3]
- Clothing stores [1]
- Construction [2]
- Cooked food [1]
- Cookery [4]
- Cookies [1]
- Cooking utensils [5]
- Cosmetics [3]
- Dancers [1]
- Demolition [7]
- Disputes [1]
- Electric bill [1]
- Empty market basket [1]
- Fabric [1]
- Fabric shops [2]
- Families [1]
- Family [1]
- Farm buying [1]
- Farm village [1]
- Farmers [4]
- Farming [1]
- Fish [8]
- Food [1]
- Food supply [2]
- Food vendors [2]
- Fruit [1]
- Fufu [2]
- Funeral cloth [4]
- Funeral dancing [1]
- Funeral processions [7]
- Funeral rites & ceremonies [29]
- Gardening [1]
- Ghana [1]
- Girls [1]
- Groundnuts [2]
- Hardware [2]
- Home labor [8]
- Household expenses [1]
- Houses [16]
- Housing [1]
- Infants [2]
- Jewelry [2]
- Jewelry stores [1]
- Kejetia [1]
- Kitchen wares [1]
- Kitchens [2]
- Leisure [1]
- Life histories [1]
- Lorry station [1]
- Market stall [1]
- Market stand [1]
- Market trader [5]
- Market traders [9]
- Markets [122]
- Marriage [1]
- Memorial rites & ceremonies [1]
- Memorial service [1]
- Men [20]
- Metals [2]
- Mobile traders [3]
- Mothers [2]
- Musicians [3]
- Onions [13]
- Oranges [3]
- Ovens [6]
- Palm Nuts [4]
- Palm Oil [1]
- Palm nuts [1]
- Palm oil [7]
- Pedestrians [1]
- People associated with transportation [2]
- Peppers [2]
- Petrol station [1]
- Plantains [3]
- Portraits [30]
- Pottery [1]
- Pounding fufu [1]
- Purses [2]
- Queenmother [15]
- Reconstruction [2]
- Refrigerators [1]
- Research assistant [1]
- Restaurants [1]
- Risk [1]
- Roads [2]
- Rural Banks [1]
- Rural w [1]
- Rural women [5]
- School children [1]
- Secondhand clothing [3]
- Shea butter [3]
- Smoking fish [7]
- Storage facilities [1]
- Storefronts [2]
- Stores & shops [10]
- Street vendors [4]
- Suburban life [1]
- Textiles [1]
- Tie and dye [2]
- Tomatoes [7]
- Transportation [3]
- Transportation facilities [1]
- Trucks [5]
- Twi [1]
- Universities & colleges [1]
- Vegetables [1]
- Village [1]
- Villages [8]
- Water tap [1]
- Wholesale [2]
- Wholesale yards [5]
- Women [70]
- Women's organizations [12]
- Yam ceremony [8]
- Yams [40]
- bargaining [1]
- boys [1]
- brokers [1]
- bush hundred [1]
- child labor [1]
- chop bar [1]
- clothing [1]
- cookery [1]
- cooking [2]
- currency exchange [1]
- farm buying [2]
- farmgate buying [2]
- fieldwork [1]
- fufu [3]
- fufu pounding [1]
- gender [1]
- goats [1]
- houses [1]
- informal sector [1]
- loaders [2]
- market roads [1]
- markets [1]
- muslims [1]
- queenmother [1]
- rural women [1]
- seasons [1]
- size [1]
- street scene [1]
- supply districts [2]
- suppy districts [1]
- tailors [1]
- tie and dye [1]
- tomato line [1]
- travelers [3]
- used clothing [1]
- vendors [1]
- villagers [1]
- wholesale yards [2]
- wholesaler [1]
- women [2]
- yams [1]
Ethnic Group
- Akuapim [1]
- Asante [53]
- Brong [26]
- Fante [1]
- Foreign African [1]
- Southern Ghana [15]
Itinerary
- Agricultural Marketing [34]
- Cloth [14]
- Gender [155]
- Kids [36]
- Muslims [2]
- Onions [13]
- Oranges [6]
- Tomatoes [9]
- Women's groups [14]
- Yams [54]

Kumasi Central Market and Ghana Field Images

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