IDNO

P.48870.ACH2

Description

Group portrait of “Sheikh Ai-chek of CHICH Dinkas, also known as SHEROM - Arabic name = hair lip - of great age”, Native officer (Mamur of Lau), some headmen of Chich Dinkas, and four young Dinka women. [JD 14/10/2009]

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Bahr el Ghazal; Lau [Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Dinka

Named Person

Sheikh Ai-chek (also known as Sherom)

Photographer

Greenwood, Ronald Charles (Captain H.L.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

1911

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in envelope now marked C157/2/3/. This envelope was found in drawer 2 of the green cabinet. The entire cabinet was previously numbered as “batch 143” and is now re-numbered C157/ by the transcriber.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “NE Africa; Sudan; Bahr el Ghazal ...”, but South Sudan, where Bahr el Ghazal is located, gained political independence from Sudan in 2011. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 08/01/2017]