IDNO

P.50017.ACH2

Description

"Didinga transformed into government police" [Shepstone’s caption]

A group of approximately twenty-one Didinga men stand in line in the centre of the foreground, many of them carrying weapons reminiscent of muskets. They are identically in police uniform, in shorts and a belted shirt with knee-high socks and shoes as well as hats. [LS 26/07/23]

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; southern Sudan; ?Didinga Hills

Cultural Affliation

Didinga

Named Person

Photographer

?Shepstone, Harold James; ?Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

?Driberg, Jack Herbert

Date

22 November 1927

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.50014.ACH2. to P.50110.ACH2. were found in envelope now marked C210/7/. 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", but the envelope is inscribed with Didinga, Longarim, and Topotha, which are cultural groups of southern Sudan. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 2/6/2009]

Date: The prints, P.50017.ACH2 and P.50052.ACH2, from the same series have a stamp dated "22 No 1927" adhered to their reverse. The date circa 1927 has been added to the other prints from the series. [JD 11/6/2009]

Photographer: Prints P.50018.ACH2, P.50070.ACH2, and P.50091.ACH2 are signed on the reverse with "H.J. Shepstone". Prints P.50044.ACH2 and P.50046.ACH2 are stamped on the reverse with "From H. J. Shepstone. 139 Broomwood Road, Clapham Common, London S.W." This name has been added to the Photographer’s field. [JD 11/6/2009]

Place and Photographer: Matching this series of prints to the duplicate images in Lanternslide drawers LS.55.TC1 - LS.57.TC1 indicates that the photographs relate to Jack Driberg's fieldwork in South Sudan, 1922-1927. The Place, Photographer, and Date fields have been updated accordingly. [JD 15/06/2018]