photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A35.144
- Description
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Full length, frontal portrait of adult male outdoors. Male wearing turban, cloths over shoulder and around waists, carrying rifle.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1909-1922 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Main Themes of Album: southern Sudan - scenes of village life including dances and other ceremonial events; portraits, mainly anthropometric; buildings and shrines including wall-paintings; objects including pots and weapons.
Geography: Location suggested by B J Mack, 25/02/1997.
Circumstances: This photograph may not be part of the Seligman Collection. B J Mack, 25/2/1997.
The Seligmans undertook ethnographic surveys in Sudan in 1909-10, 1911-12 and 1921-22. Respectively, these journeys were north to south along the Nile and among the Nuba; east to west, including the Kababish of Kordofan and Beja of Red Sea Province; south and east of the Dinka, Bari and Lotuko speaking tribes (Seligman 1932, pp. xii-xiii). However, the Seligmans were not the only photographers on these expeditions, and they also collected photographs taken by other people. B J Mack, 6/01/1997.
This photograph may not be part of the Seligman Collection. B J Mack, 25/02/1997.
The Seligmans also made a collection of photographs of the Veddas of Ceylon, held in the Asia section of the British Museum Department of Ethnography Pictorial Archive. Objects collected by the Seligmans in both areas are also held by the Department of Ethnography.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum (?).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A35.144