IDNO

LS.140675.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.42.
Africa, East. Didinga.
Didinga hunter and his kill, wearing the Kadengo or leather belt habitually worn by Didinga males after puberty.

On Print for duplicate image P.50091.ACH2: "A Didinga hunter and his quarry. He is seen wearing a waist-belt made of the hide of a zebra. Certain animals are ... prohibited ...
and must not be killed, such as the giraffe, as they say it would result in a bad harvest by affecting the crops"
"The kadengo is assumed by a youth at his initiation to the status of novice warrior." [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

Date

1925

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

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