Hello everybody the artifact that I will be presenting is the portrait of my late great grandmother and she is a very important to our family although she is no longer with us she was a role model to all of us and how our family is now. She had 7 kids and they went on to have kids and I eventually came about. Although I didn’t meet her my mom always told me stories about how she instilled a working ethic in all her kids and always laid a foundation of always facing adversity to get what u want. Being Ghanaian myself these foundations were always instilled in me at a young age. This picture was taken in the 1950s and I got this picture when I went back to Ghana in 2013 to visit family back there. I believe the picture is over 50 years old. This photo was taken for her 30th birthday. Whenever we have a family gathering her picture is always in the center of the room because we all adored her that much. The reason why I chose this artifact is because our grandmother has always been the glue that held the family together when it came to arguments and what not she was always the delegator and made sure things always ran smoothly. Another reason why I chose this artifact was because it meant a lot to my family and it was fairly easy to pick due to the admiration we had towards her. It only seemed right. This artifact is important to me personally because the values that my grandmother teaches her kids is what my mom instilled in me. Hardworking ethics and core values are what my family embodies and she had a big part in that happening. Culturally the way my family acts and the things we value is because of her. The greater story that the artifact tells the reader about my life, family, and culture is that I come from a place of strong values and work ethics and also it shows that my grandmother was an important figure in my family and was sort of the leader in my family. If I wanted to find the background of the artifact I could ask my other family members about it because they could possibly know more than me given they were all very close to her. That portrait is the only living picture of her so that portrait is precious to us. My grandmother instilled in us the importance of family. Every Sunday we always have a big dinner with all my family, my family is very huge so at least 20 people come  every Sunday. I used to ask her why we always had a big dinner every Sunday and she said that because of my grandmother she used to tell them when they were young that when they grow up and she’s not here she wants them to always have dinner on sunday with family and that’s been something we’ve been doing for years just because of her.