IDNO

LS.140697.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda Borders. 55.64.
Africa, East. Didinga
Didinga warrior showing Temedek. Black feathers reserved to senior warriors, as is the pattern of ear-ring, known as Logumak.

On Print for duplicate image P.50089.ACH2: "A Didinga warrior, wearing the headdress of growing hair (temedek) which is the mark of their grade warrior status in age-grade system. The black ostrich feather is reserved for senior warriors and senior grades their elders. The temedek is grown when the youth passes from their status of noviciate warrior to that of junior warrior, and it is the general ambition to grow as large as a one as possible, sometimes so large that it obscures the vision & has to be cut back from the eyes during war." [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

1923

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

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