photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A36.52
- Description
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Southern Sudan, profile head and torso portrait of Shilluk adult male. Standing in front of cloth covering brick wall. Band around head with objects hanging at back of neck [beads or tassels?]. Wearing cloth or robe tied over shoulder. Hand holding label saying "17" entering picture at left.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1909-1922 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 11.59 centimetres
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Width: 8.28 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Seligman (1925) contains similar anthropometric portraits from southern Sudan. 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.
Geography: Ethnic group suggested by E Kurimoto, 31/01/1997.
Circumstances: Af,A36.51 depicts the same adult male from the front. The Seligmans undertook ethnographic surveys in the 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: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.
Im Coll: Af,A36.54
Duplicate original photographic print. British Museum Department of Ethnography Pictorial Archive reference number. Af,A36.52 would probably be the better image for reproduction.
The Seligmans also made a collection of photographs of the Veddas of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 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,A36.52