IDNO

P.57226.RDG

Description

Head and shoulders profile portrait of a Swahili man from Somalia. The man has shaved hair and wears a checked cloth as a cape.

Place

NE Africa; Somaliland; ?south Somalia [Somalia; Somali Land]

Cultural Affliation

Swahili

Named Person

Photographer

Schmidt, Hans

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

1905

Collection Name

Ridgeway CollectionVon Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57192.RDG to P.57260.RDG were found in C274/1/ which came from C274/. The latter was kept in Wooden Drawer VI.

Group: The Swahili of Somalia live in Baraawe (Brava), Lower Shabeelle, and were scattered in cities and towns of southern Somalia. Most have fled to Kenya because of the civil war. The Bajun live in Kismaayo District and the neighbouring coast. [Source: Ethnologue Online, 15th Edition, JD 14/6/2007]

Related Archive: MAA Annual Report 1905, p. 21:
"1337. Forty photographs (6" x 4".5 and smaller) of African natives, from Togo Land, Cameroons, and of Swaheli Masai, Hereos, and Hottentots. Baron Anatole von Hügel." [JD 1/22/2014]

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