IDNO

LS.140692.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.59.
Africa, East. Didinga.
Slim and fat types of Didinga girls. Slide shows Rikachit or shell apron worn by unmarried women. The apron is usually made of chips of ostrich egg with, at the bottom, a fringe of dark seeds. The fat girl wears a band round her head as a counter-irritant to headache.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Didinga

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

1923

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

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