PROJECT  REPORTS

The  Institute  is also  working  out  a  scheme  for  the  study  of  traditional

architectural  patterns  in  Ghana.  This  scheme,  which  will  be  within  the  Ashanti
research  project,  will  be  directed  and  guided  by  the  school  of  Architecture  and
Town  Planning  of  the  Kwame  Nkrumah  University  of  Science  and  Technology.

THE  VOLTA  BASIN  SURVEY

With  the  imminent  flooding  of  many  parts of *he  Volta  Basin,  the  Institute

evolved  an  emergency  scheme  for  the  recording  of  basic  ethnographic  and  historical
data  from  the  towns and  villages  to  be  inundated.  Since  the  Volta  Basin  Research
Project  was  unable  to  offer  any  financial  assistance,  the  Institute  operated  a
modified  scheme  from  its own  finances.  Mr.  E.  Y.  Aduamah  has been  working
mainly  in  the  Ewe  parts  of'the  flood-area,  Mr.  Kwabena  Ameyaw  in  the  Afram
plains,  and  Mr.  J.  E.  K.  Kumah  within  the  Kete  Krachi  area. 
It  has thus  been
possible  to  obtain  a  considerable  quantity  of  field  material  from  those  areas
already,  or  about  to  be,  flooded,  and  after  processing, this  data  will  be  made
available.  Plans  are  now  in  hand  to extend  this  work  over  the  more  northerly
areas  which  will  be  flooded  within  the  next  two  years,  and  also  into  the  Bui
area,  where  a  second  dam  is  in  course  df  construction. 
In  addition,  several
expeditions  have  visited  the  Kete  Krachi  area  to  study  the  libraries  of  the  maloms
there,  for  the  Muslim  community  Is  likely  to  become  dispersed  after  the  evacuation
of  the  town  (see  report  on  the  Arabic  collection  below).

The  field  reports on  the  Ewe-speaking  areas  so far  accessioned  cover  the

following  areas:

1.
3.
5.
7.
9.
11.

K pa lime
Botoku
Wusuta
Aveme
Ewes  in  the
Buem-Akan

Afram  Plains
area

2.
4.
6.
8.
10.
12.

Tonkor
Tsoho
Awate  and  Jufaji
Tsyome
Dodi-Anum  area
The  migrant  Tongu  fishermen

Lists of  reports  from other  areas within  the  flood  basin will  be  published  in

subsequent  issues.