Shilluk chief

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Condition:

bad glass cracks at base [Chris Morton 4/10/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.b.26 (225)

Accession Number:

1967.26.45

Description:

A head-and-shoulders full face portrait of a Shilluk chief photographed against a sheet backdrop, one of many physical anthropology images taken by the Seligmans. This Chief was probably photographed during the Seligman's enquiries at Kodok and Fashoda in late 1909.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

?1909 December

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Kodok

Group:

Shilluk

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced (cropped) as Plate III/2 (facing page 38) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Shilluk types...2. Aristocratic" [CM 2/9/2005]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Neck

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.b.26. Shilluk, aristocratic type. (225 and 226)"

Note on lantern slide - "V.b.26. Sudan. Shilluk Aristocratic type. CGS. 225"

Other Information:

Suggested dates for the images are based upon a summary of the Seligman diary entries compiled by Dr Fran Larson in the related documents file. [Chris Morton 1/10/2004] This chief also appears in Plate IVa (facing page 40) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Contrasting types of Shilluk" [Chris Morton 1/10/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [4/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]