IDNO

LS.140674.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.41.
Africa, East.
Women waiting at the grain market with armed men escort in the background. Grain is carried in skin bags capable of holding 70 lbs of grain. One of the duties of the warriors is to provide escorts for all parties of women going far from their homes.

On Print for duplicate image P.50055.ACH2: "Women resting at the grain market. Armed male escort in background." [Shepstone’s caption]

Place

E Africa; Uganda; South Sudan; Didinga Mountains [Ango-Egyptian Sudan]

Cultural Affliation

Didinga

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

?Roscoe, John R. [Mackie Ethnological Expedition, Uganda, 1919 - 1920]

Date

1924

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

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