IDNO

P.50078.ACH2

Description

"Didinga of junior warrior status, recovering from illness. Illness indicated by skin slung over shoulder, from animals sacrificed for his cure. Illness was not severe enough for him to shave temedick. Wears lodeni labret & necklace & armlets. Carries taba, primarily a neck-rest, necessary with his style of hairdressing, but also used as stool & as parrying shiled." [Shepstone’s caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate lantern slide LS.140686.TC1:
Africa, East. Didinga.
Didinga of Junior warrior status holding neck rest. The neck rest is used not only for its primary purpose but also as a stool and as a parrying guard in an emergency. He is recovering from an illness, as is indicated by the skin which is worn over his shoulder, and by the strips of skin worn below his knee and above his ankle. These were (see next slide) [card?]
provided by the goat sacrificed for his recovery, but that the illness was not very serious is clear from the fact that he did not shave off his Temedek, which consists of growing out the hiar and when it is long enough, it is braided in and often protected with a bark cloth cover..

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; Southern Sudan; ?Didinga Hills

Cultural Affliation

Didanga

Named Person

Photographer

?Shepstone, Harold James; ?Driber, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Date

circa 1923 - 1932

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]