IDNO

LS.135782.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Nuba. 59. LII.Nuba10, 11
Jebel Eliri: Lafofa com.y [community]: woman w. cheloids, back and side views.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.6904.ACH1: Nubian woman, back view showing scarification (Lafofa tribe)

Place

NE Africa; Sudan

Cultural Affliation

Nuba

Named Person

Photographer

?Seligman, Charles Gabriel S.

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1911 - ?1912

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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 white numbering on the lower edge of the negative was used by Charles Seligman (see P.6904.ACH1). The Place, Group and Date of the print is also in accord with Seligman's fieldwork in Sudan. [JD 5/31/2017]