IDNO

P.74481.

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.135781.TC1: Nuba. 59. LII.Nuba 9.
Jebel Eliri: Lafofa com.y [?community]: woman & house.

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; South Kurdufan; Nuba Mountains; Jebel Eliri

Cultural Affliation

Nuba; Lafofa

Named Person

Photographer

?Seligman, Charles Gabriel S.

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1911 - ?1912

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C450/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Group: Lafofa is an ethnic minority among the Nuba people of Sudan, with numbers less than 10,000 persons, and living in South Kurdufan province. This minority is mainly Muslim. The traditional language is Lafofa, a Niger-Congo language. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafofa_people, JD 09/01/2017]

Photographer: The print was previously unattributed but the white numbering on the lower edge of the negative was used by Charles Seligman. The Place, Group and Date of the print is also in accord with Seligman's fieldwork in Sudan. [JD 5/31/2017]