photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A39.146
- Description
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Northern Sudan, frontal portrait of two adult males wearing robes, outdoors. Male at left has shaved head, male at right wears hair-ornament. Label saying "034" entering picture at left.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1909-1922 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.05 centimetres
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Width: 10.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Seligman (1913) contains anthropometric portraits from northern Sudan, including people who appear to belong to the same ethnic group as those depicted in the photograph i in question.
Main Themes of Album: northern Sudan - stone buildings and megaliths; portraits of nomads, some anthropometric; nomadic life including shelters, animal husbandry and a ceremony [wedding?].
Geography: Location and ethnic group suggested by T Cotterill, 22/01/1997.
Circumstances: 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.
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,A39.146