IDNO

P.49897.DRI

Description

"Lotuko-speaking Langu [sic 'Lango'], wearing brass-plated helmet, near Ikoto." [Driberg’s caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate lanternslide LS.140752.TC1: Lotuko. 56.LOT.8.
Africa, East.
Lotuko-speaking Lango, wearing brass-plated helmet, near Ikoto.

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Didinga Mountains; near Ikoto [Ango-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Otuho [historically Lotuko]; Lango

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Date

circa 1921 - 1925

Collection Name

Driberg CollectionUnmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.49897.ACH2. to P.49909.ACH2. were found in envelope now marked C210/3/. This was found in another envelope now marked C210/ which came from the wooden drawer 1.

Cultural Group: Lotuko is an alternative name for the Otuho, a cultural group of southern Sudan. Lango is also a cultural group of Torit District, Southern Sudan (distinct from the Lango of Uganda), as well as being an alternative name for the Didinga. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 19/6/2009]

Photographer: The handwriting on the reverse of the prints P.49897.ACH2. to P.49909.ACH2. is the same as the series P.49848.ACH2. to P.49875.ACH2, which has been provisionally assigned to J.H.Driberg, and the dates circa 1912 - 1921. The Photographer and Date fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 19/6/2009]