IDNO

P.49908.DRI

Description

"Lotuko village in centre foreground sacred avalachar where drums are hung for dance" [Driberg's caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.140751.TC1: Sudan Borders. 56.LOT.7.
Africa, East. Lotuko.
Lotuko village. In the centre foreground is the sacred avalachar where drums are hung for dances.

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Didinga Mountains; Torit District [Ango-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Otuho [historically Lotuko]

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

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]