IDNO

P.50997.RDG

Description

Half-length portrait of young woman wearing patterned fabric wrapped around the waist in a sarong style. She has scarification markings on chest, arms and face and is wearing beaded ornaments around her neck, one short and one long with some kind of amulet or pouch on the end. Her hair is braided along her head. She sits on a chair in front of what seems to be a sheet covering a stone wall.

Place

NE Africa; ?Sudan; ?Dofile

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Art. A. Lekegian & Co. [Studio]

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1887 - 1908

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in an envelope now marked C239/ which was inside the wooden drawer I.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [JD 2/7/2007]