IDNO

P.50116.ACH2

Description

Two Shilluk fishermen paddling ambatch (reed) canoes. [JD 17/6/2009]

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Upper Nile Province [Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Shilluk

Named Person

Photographer

?Seligman

Collector / Expedition

Date

January 1910

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.50111.ACH2. to P.50140.ACH2. were found in envelope now marked C210/8/. 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; North East Africa; Sudan", but the Shiluk are a cultural group of the Upper Nile Province, southern Sudan. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnolgue 15th Edition, JD 17/6/2009]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "NE Africa; Sudan; southern Sudan; Upper Nile Province", but South Sudan gained political independence from Sudan in 1911. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 09/01/2017]

Group: The Shilluk live in Upper Nile Province, South Sudan, between Nile and Kordofan Province boundary, from Latitude 11 in the north to about 80 miles west of Tonga; also on the east bank of the Nile around the junction of the Nile and Sobat rivers, and for about 20 miles up the Sobat River. [Source: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/southernsudan/cultural_group.php.html, JD 09/01/2017]