IDNO

P.6908.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Lafofa (Nuba) pot, representing giraffe skin

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.135788.TC1: Nuba. 59. LII.LNuba 18.
Jebel Eliri: pot, decoration spotted like a giraffe.

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]

Photographer: The print was previously unattributed but the white numbering on the lower edge of the negative was used by Charles Seligman. The Place, Group and Date of the print is also in accord with Seligman's fieldwork in Sudan. [JD 5/31/2017]