IDNO

LS.140683.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.50.
Africa, East. Didinga.
Didinga hair-dressing.

On Print for duplicate image P.50087.ACH2: "DIDINGA Warriors dressing each other’s hair. The temedek requires frequent repair, as it is apt to get torn by branches. The hair is allowed to grow long & is then worked into a kind of felt. Sometimes the hair of an ancestor may be worked into the growing hair, but no other hair is introduced. On the under side of the temedek, above the brow, are concealed two implements - one of curved iron with a split end, with which insects which tend to occupy ... the temedek are removed; the second of curved wood which is a needle used for the purpose of repair." The temedek is shaved off for mourning, sickness, or when it becomes too infested for comfort. During the agricultural season it is often protected by a well-made cover of bark-cloth." [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

1924

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

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