IDNO

P.6899.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Nuba village
Village scene at Lafofa (note pig)

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.135784.TC1: Nuba. 59. LII.Nuba.13.
Jebel Eliri: village: note pig in a Mohammedan community.

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; South Kurdufan; Nuba Mountains; Jebel Eliri

Cultural Affliation

Nuba; Lafofa

Named Person

Photographer

Seligman, Charles Gabriel S.

Collector / Expedition

Date

1911 - 1912

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Group: Lafofa is an ethnic minority among the Nuba people of Sudan, with numbers less than 10,000 persons, and living in South Kurdufan province. This minority is mainly Muslim. The traditional language is Lafofa, a Niger-Congo language. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafofa_people, JD 09/01/2017]