IDNO

P.50033.ACH2

Description

"Benyangole pool in the heart of the plateau forest. The stream falls into the pool over a pegmatite bar, the base of which is surrounded by maiden-hair ferns. The pool is green avoided because if has a reputation of holiness owing to explosions of swamp gas & the lights of swamp iridescence, which are thought to be fatal to all animal life - except for girls at their puberty initiation & at no other time, have to bathe in its water & sleep for one night in the nettles which surround it." [Shepstone’s caption]

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.10.
Africa, East.
Benyangoli Pool in the heart of the Plateau Forest. The stream falls into the pool over a pegmatite bar, the base of which is surrounded by maidenhair and other temperate ferns. The pool is avoided because it has a reputation of holiness owing to swamp gas and to the lights of swamp irridescence. [sic iridescence]
(see next card)

[cont. on extra card]
Uganda Borders. 55.10.(cont.)
Africa, East.
which are thought to be fatal to all animal life - except to girls who, at their puberty initiation and at no other time, have to bathe in its water and to sleep for one night in the nettles which surround it.

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; southern Sudan; ?Didinga Hills; Benyangole Pool

Cultural Affliation

?Didinga

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 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]