Featured Help with group photo...........................................h/c 3

Hi Folks

picked up this interesting photo yesterday.......any idea whats going on?

found it interesting that there was only one white fella in the mix

any idea of age (seems a lot going on for clues) (car)

the hats near the bottom make me think warm climate as well

thanks

 

lots of different type/grade of clothing going on as well

 

very helpful mate, great bit of info

 

The traditional clothing is from Ghana imo.

 

odd photo....... rubber plantation...... business of some kind....

 

theres a real mix in there right ? (of clothing)

 

interesting thanks bud, plantation was the first word that came to mind, but wanna make sure

 

Yes, there is. Different tribes and different adaptations to European clothes.

 

This particular style of strip woven cloth, known as "kente" cloth, is associated with Ghana, as Any Jewelry suggested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kente_cloth

 

and he looks like he's holding it quite dear

 

Thanks for that, I was trying to think of the name and yes, it is kente cloth.

 

Britain was involved in establishing oil palm plantations in West Africa in the early 1900s (consistent with the date of the style of your photograph). Here is a similar photo showing the staff of a company established in Nigeria -

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/...-oil-nuts-staff-epetido-news-photo/1195749043
Nigeria, Marking on reverse: 'African Oil Nuts Staff. Epetido, Lagos, Nigeria, B W Africa, May 18th 1921'. Group portrait of European and African staff of the African Oil Nuts Company, 18 May 1921. 2000/098/2/27. (Photo by: Bristol Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Britain set up a similar plantation in Ghana (then the "Gold Coast") in the early 1900s -

"In the British colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), an oil palm plantation and mill was established by Alexander Cecil Goff in the early 1900s at a location near the coast."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep15666.4?seq=1

 

thats sooooooo interesting, all impeccably dressed as well, which might be just ignorance on my part, but totally not what i was expecting

thanks for that info 2mb...brilliant as always

 

i appreciate the condition isn't great, but ya reckon theres a good market for this kinda snap ?

 

valuations please

 

Maybe among Africans in the UK? Overhere Dutch-Indonesians are interested in colonial photographs because of an interest in their Indonesian foremothers and their lives in colonial society (usually not very happy lives).

You are new here, but we don't give valuations etc etc.