Traditional Chants
Photograph
Traditional Chants
Ghana's New Port Kills a Colorful Old Custom
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 3/16 in. (15.9 × 23.3 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0099
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Ghana Port) 11/61 9) RADITIONAL CHANTS urge boatmen on from \ ship to shore. Only sundown brings an end to work, \ but the boatman's life also includes months of uninterupted ease. Each man signs a contract for \ 313 round trips and none will agree to working more \ nor less. After completing his tour of five to six \ weeks, he returns to his village, Cape Coast, which \ supplies all of Accra's muscular oarsmen. \ Credit: Marc Riboud © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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