Dinka village on Nile

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.g.5 (355)

Accession Number:

1967.26.209

Description:

A Dinka homestead with a small step-thatched huts on the banks of a river in the dry season, probably near Bor. This is likely to be a dry season camp seen by the Seligmans from a paddle steamer as they made there way south during their 1909-10 expedition.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Bor

Group:

Dinka ?Paliet

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter

Keyword:

Cattle Camp , Rivers & Streams

Documentation:

Manual Catalogue in Related Documents File

Primary Documentation:

Accession Book Entry - [1967.26] THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, HOUGHTON STREET, ALDWYCH, LONDON, W.C.E. PER MR ANTHONY FORGE - SUDAN. Box containing 309 lantern slides (3 1/4” x 3 1/4”) made from photographs taken by the late Professor C. G. SELIGMAN in various parts of the SUDAN. All slides numbered and labelled. Catalogue in file (“Seligman Slide Collection”). Additional Accession Book Entry - [in pencil] 18 Parks Rd.

Manual catalogue entry (thermofax catalogue copy in folder '27-06 Seligman Slide Collection') - "V.g.5. Dinka. Houses of Tain tribe near river (355)"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.g.5. Dinka. Houses of Tain tribe near river. CGS. 355"

Other Information:

Tain Dinka might be another term for Tainbour which is an alternative name for the Paliet dialect of southwestern Dinka language. This information from Ethnologue. [Chris Morton 19/10/2004] The next number in the Seligman photograph numbers, 356, is located at Bor, so this image was probably taken in the near vicinity. [Chris Morton 13/10/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [19/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]