IDNO

P.50087.ACH2

Description

"DIDINGA Warriors dressing each other’s hair. The temedek requires frequent repair, as it is apt to get torn by branches. The hair is allowed to grow long & is then worked into a kind of felt. Sometimes the hair of an ancestor may be worked into the growing hair, but no other hair is introduced. On the under side of the temedek, above the brow, are concealed two implements - one of curved iron with a split end, with which insects which tend to occupy ... the temedek are removed; the second of curved wood which is a needle used for the purpose of repair." The temedek is shaved off for mourning, sickness, or when it becomes too infested for comfort. During the agricultural season it is often protected by a well-made cover of bark-cloth." [Shepstone’s caption]

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

9 June 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]