IDNO

P.74500.

Description

An upper body profile vignetted portrait of a Shilluk girl wearing an animal skin and neck ornament. It is possible to just make out a number of dotted cictrices on her left arm. [from PRM record, JD 31/3/2010]

Physical Condition: Albumen print vignetted. Mount card originally had four prints and now has been cut into four individual prints, P.74497. - P.74500. [JD 31/3/2010]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Shilluk

Named Person

Photographer

Buchta, Richard

Collector / Expedition

Date

1879

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “NE Africa; Sudan; Southern Sudan”, 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]

Cultural Group: ‘Shilluk’ is a Nilo-Saharan and Eastern Sudanic cultural group, primarily residing in Sudan. The Group and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 31/3/2010]

Related Image: The same image is held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, reference 1998.203.1.11.1, with the following information:
Description: An upper body profile vignetted portrait of a Shilluk girl wearing an animal skin and neck ornament. It is possible to just make out a number of dotted cictrices on her left arm.
Photographer: Richard Buchta
Date of Photo: 1877 - 1879
Region: [Southern Sudan]
Group: Shilluk
Contemporary Publication - Richard Buchta, Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften . Dargestellt in 160
[Source: http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/details/1998.203.1.11.1/, JD 31/3/2010]

Photographer: Richard Buchta (1845-1894). The Buchta prints are possibly copies of those published in Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften . Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta. (Berlin 1881. Verlag Von J. F. Stiehm).
“Buchta was an Austrian professional photographer, who had probably been working in Cairo for several years before meeting the Italian soldier-administrator Romolo Gessi there in April 1877. Buchta is known to have been in Khartoum in the middle of 1878, perhaps as a freelance photographer. In August he set out from Khartoum on the S.S. Safia bound for Lado. He afterwards completed a journey as far south as Bunyoro in northern Uganda, returning to Lado in March 1879. From there he journeyed west to visit Zande (Makaraka) and other communities. In September 1879 he went from Lado to Shambe and then westwards, meeting the missionaries Wilson and Felkin as well as Gessi at Dem Suleiman before December 4. In February 1880 Buchta met Junker at Meshra el Rek, on his way to Khartoum, and he showed him prints he had made, especially from his recent travels in Makaraka. Buchta was back in Europe probably by the end of 1880, publishing his photographic collection the following year.” [Source: http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/biography/buchta/, JD 31/3/2010]