IDNO

P.50021.ACH2

Description

"Longarim clan head. His hair is dressed Topotha fashion, & his physical features shew Topotha & mixture." [Shepstone’s caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.140739.TC1: Sudan Borders. 56.LON.6.
Africa, East. Longarim.
Longarim clan head. His hair is dressed in Topotha fashion and his physical features show Topotha admixture. On the top of his head, attached to his hair, is the apparatus into which ostrich feathers are placed for war or for dancing. This apparatus is also woven into the Didinga Temedek (a Didinga hair-hat) and is called Chobechit.

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Didinga Mountains; ?western Boya Hills [Ango-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Narim [historically Longarim]; Toposa [historically Topotha]

Named Person

Photographer

?Shepstone, Harold James; ?Driber, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

?Driberg, Jack Herbert

Date

circa 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 print is inscribed as "Longarim", which is a cultural group of southern Sudan. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 2/6/2009]

Cultural Group: Longarim is an alternative name for Narim, with Longarim being the Didinga name for the people. [JD 12/6/2009]

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]