IDNO

P.50020.ACH2

Description

"The two men on the left of this group are Didinga. The rest are Topotha. The wearer of the white tunic is Lomoti, a Topotha war-leader on the Thingaita river, who obtained it by killing its wearer, an Equatorial soldier." [Shepstone’s caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate lantern slide LS.140714.TC1: Uganda Borders. 55.81.
Africa, East.
Didinga and Topotha. The two nearest figure are Didinga, the rest are Topotha. Topotha wear the Kadengo or waist belt similar to that of the Didinga but rather broader. Baboon capes are more freely used by them. The Topotha wearing a white tunic obtained it from the body of an Equatorial soldier whom he had killed.

Place

E Africa; South Sudan; ?Didinga Hills; Thingaita River [Ango-Egyptian Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Didinga; Toposa [historically Topotha]

Named Person

?Lomoti

Photographer

?Shepstone, Harold James; ?Driber, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

?Driberg, Jack Herbert

Date

1925

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. Prints P.50044.ACH2 and P.50053.ACH2 are inscribed with "9-6-32". P.50054.ACH2 is inscribed Feb 1923. Therefore the date circa 1923 - 1932 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]