IDNO

P.50089.ACH2

Description

"A Didinga warrior, wearing the headdress of growing hair (temedek) which is the mark of their grade warrior status in age-grade system. The black ostrich feather is reserved for senior warriors and senior grades their elders. The temedek is grown when the youth passes from their status of noviciate warrior to that of junior warrior, and it is the general ambition to grow as large as a one as possible, sometimes so large that it obscures the vision & has to be cut back from the eyes during war." [Shepstone’s caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate lantern slide LS.140697.TC: Uganda Borders. 55.64.
Africa, East. Didinga
Didinga warrior showing Temedek. Black feathers reserved to senior warriors, as is the pattern of ear-ring, known as Logumak.

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]