IDNO

P.49943.ACH2

Description

"5. Local groups of Otoro parading before the thek, with decorated shields & ‘tails’ streaming." [Photographer's caption]

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; Northern Sudan; Kordofan Province; Nuba Mountains; ?Otoro Hills

Cultural Affliation

Otoro

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa ?1930 - ?1940

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.49940.ACH2. to P.50013.ACH2. were found in envelope now marked C210/6/. This was found in another envelope now marked C210/ which came from the wooden drawer 1.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Africa; North East Africa; Sudan; Jeb Otoro; Otoro", but the photograph is part of a series of images from the Nuba Mountains in northern Sudan. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 10/6/2009]

Cultural Group: The Otoro are a cultural group of the Otoro Hills, Nuba Mountains; Kordofan Province, Northern Sudan. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 23/6/2009]

Date: The photograph is part of a series of images probably taken in the 1930s based on the European women’s dress and hair styles in images P.49964.ACH2 and P.49979.ACH2. [JD 10/6/2009]

Photographer: Series P.49940.ACH2. to P.50013.ACH2. are part of a wider series of prints P.49945.ACH2. to P.50012.ACH2. [JD 23/6/2009]