Recovering the Material and Visual Cultures of the Southern Sudan: A Museological Resource
This website provides access to a detailed catalogue of the collections from Southern Sudan held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, the University of Oxford's museum of anthropology and world archaeology. The Museum's holdings from Southern Sudan comprise more than 1300 artefacts and 5000 photographs. Together, the artefacts and photographs provide a major resource for studying the cultural and visual history of the region. The site also provides a map; annotated lists of cultural groups, collectors, photographers, and people portrayed in the photographs; and a set of further resources (relevant literature, websites, and a site bibliography).
Ritual carving
Carvings promoting the life forces in the community, specifically concerned with children, twins and marriage
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Bongo funerary figure
"These figures were said to represent the chief proceeding to a festival, and followed by his retainers, bearing viands and man to the feast"
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