IDNO

P.57257.RDG

Description

An Acholi Initiation Circuit of the ‘Man who wears feather circuit’, consisting of a central man with a large drum circled by ten men holding small drums in their left hands and curved playing stick in their right hands. Seven of the men wear head circlets with feathers attached, and the rest of the men have bare heads. All of the men wear pelts as kilts. In the foreground is a post topped with a ball of possibly feathers?.

Place

C Africa; Uganda; Acholi District

Cultural Affliation

Acholi

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa ?1900

Collection Name

Ridgeway 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.

Place: Acholi is a group of Uganda spoken in the north central Acholi district. [Source: Ethnologue Online 15th Edition, JD 19/6/2007]

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