IDNO

P.50024.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.140740.TC1: "Sudan Borders.
J.H. Driberg, 1924.
Longarim rain controllers showing Nyatubot, dance bells, Longarim types of head-dress, sandals which differ from those of the Didinga. The figure on the left, wearing a leopard skin, wears an arrangement of large beads set in a cluster which is typical of Topotha ornamentation. These beads are very scarce and each one is worth a heifer. Like the Topotha, with whom they are much intermarried, they are more given to the use of capes and coils of brass wire than are the Didinga. They are decorated with coloured clays for a dance. The wavy pattern of the decoration signifies rain. The buffalo tail worn at the elbow of one figure is purely a dancing ornament."

"Longarim rain-controllers, dressed for a dance, shewing wavy pattern (= rain) of colour on their legs. They are close kinsmen of the Didinga, speak the same language with dialectical differences, but are lowlanders. They also have the nyatubot or slashing spear, carried by the middle figure, & wear the kadengo or leather belt, broadened however partially to cover the buttocks. Sandals are of a different type. They wear a special arrangement of beads (as shown by man on left), which is of Topotha origin & may reflect (as is hairdressing & by the use of wire armlets) & wear imitate the Topotha. The buffalo tail is only worn on the arm at dances." [Driberg’s caption]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Narim [historically Longarim]; Didinga; Toposa [historically Topotha]

Named Person

Photographer

?Shepstone, Harold James; ?Driber, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

1924

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]