photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A38.164
- Description
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Northern [?] Sudan, scene of what appears to be a market. Shelter [market-stall?] made of poles and mats at left. Two male children wearing robes, standing at right. Metal bowl and plate of food in front of shelter. Adults inside shelter.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1909-1922 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.45 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Main Themes of Album: Sudan - Nilotic village life, including building-construction; pottery-making and pots; settlements, buildings, shrines and wall-paintings; views; portraits, some anthropometric; skulls; market and port scenes in Northern Sudan; scenes of nomadic life in Northern Sudan.
Geography: Location suggested by T Cotterill, 22/04/1997.
Circumstances: 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.
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,A38.164