Rumbek Jur flute
Accession Number:
1934.8.106 [ .1 .2]
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan?] ?El Buheyrat ?Warab Luklun
Cultural Group:
Rumbek Jur
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Wood Plant , Bird Feather
Process:
Perforated , Hollowed , Carved
Dimensions:
L = 155 mm
Local Name:
ugwana
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife on 13th May 1933 during a shooting expedition
Field Collector:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton & Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Brayton)
PRM Source:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Acquired:
Donated 1934
Collected Date:
13th May 1933
Description:
Wooden end-flute with scalloped mouthpiece, four finger-holes and a cleaning feather.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Luklun on 13th May 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Jur that they encountered were probably the Rumbek Jur, on geographical grounds.
This type of flute is called ugwana by the Jur, and was used by a boy.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Luklun on 13th May 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Jur that they encountered were probably the Rumbek Jur, on geographical grounds.
This type of flute is called ugwana by the Jur, and was used by a boy.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry
[p.
248] 1934 [insert] 8 [end insert] -
MAJOR P.
H.
G.
POWELL-COTTON
, Quex Park, Birchington, E.
Kent.
Specimens collected by himself & Mrs Cotton, during hunting trips, 1933, viz: [...] [p.
258] - From the
JUR
tribe, LUKLUN and KORNUK.
[...] [insert] 106 [end insert] -
Ugwana
, boys end-whistle of wood, with scallopped [sic] mouthpiece, four stops & cleaning-feather.
LUKLUN (2486).
Additional accession book entry [p. 257] - 1934.8.106. Number given HLR.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 27/4/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Jur Tribe". This object appears as item 2486: "Boy's shaped wodden [sic] flute, 3 notes, native name Ugwana , 13/5/33 Luklun, 8.11 N 28 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
Additional accession book entry [p. 257] - 1934.8.106. Number given HLR.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 27/4/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Jur Tribe". This object appears as item 2486: "Boy's shaped wodden [sic] flute, 3 notes, native name Ugwana , 13/5/33 Luklun, 8.11 N 28 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
