Lotuko amulet
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Accession Number:
1934.8.74
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Loronyo
Cultural Group:
Lotuko [Otuho]
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Animal Ivory Tooth
Process:
Carved , Perforated , Polished , Decorated
Dimensions:
L = 150 mm, W = 27 mm, Th = 24 mm, diam hole = 10 mm [RTS 13/8/2004].
Weight:
69.9 g
Local Name:
nalatome
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Hannah Brayton Slater) at Laronyo on 17th April 1933 during a shooting expedition [RTS 13/8/2004].
Field Collector:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton & Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Hannah Brayton Slater)
PRM Source:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Acquired:
Donated 1934
Collected Date:
17th April 1933
Description:
Pendant carved from a single piece of yellowish brown ivory (Pantone 7509C) and consisting of a slightly convex top on a narrow body with the sides flaring out to a carination point around 30 mm below, then tapering in to a point at the other end with a very narrow flattened tip.
The lower part of the body has had 6 parallel grooves cut around the circumference, creating a series of decorative ridges.
The rest of the surface is smooth and polished, with some carving marks still visible.
The pendant is oval in section throughout, and has been pierced near the top with a large hole that has been bored from both sides, creating an hourglass-shaped perforation.
It is complete and intact, with some small cracks running down the body and traces of red ochre in some of the decorative grooves; the surface is slightly discoloured.
It has a weight of 69.9 grams, is 150 mm long, 27 mm wide and 24 mm thick at the carination, while the hole has a diameter of 10 mm.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Loronyo on 17th April 1933, during a shooting expedition.
This pendant was used as an amulet, and is known in Lotuko as nalatome . For a strung example of this kind of amulet, see 12934.8.75, and for a smaller version see 1934.8.73, also attributed to the Lotuko.
Rachael Sparks 24/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Loronyo on 17th April 1933, during a shooting expedition.
This pendant was used as an amulet, and is known in Lotuko as nalatome . For a strung example of this kind of amulet, see 12934.8.75, and for a smaller version see 1934.8.73, also attributed to the Lotuko.
Rachael Sparks 24/9/2005.
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.
252] - From the
LATUKA
tribe, NAVERA, TORIT, LARONYO.
[p.
256, insert] 74 [end insert] -
Nalatome
, ivory amulet, perforated for suspension, ib[idem] [LARONYO] (676).
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 26/5/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Latuka Tribe". This object appears as item 676 Pair ONE ivory charm s , one 6" long, one 5 7/8" long , native name Nalatome , 17/4/33 Laronyo, 4.38 N 32.37 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].
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - Nalatome , amulet pendant. LATUKA, LARONYO, E. SUDAN. 4° 38’ N, 32° 37’ E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 (676) [rectangular metal-edged tag, tied to object; RTS 13/8/2004].
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 26/5/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Latuka Tribe". This object appears as item 676 Pair ONE ivory charm s , one 6" long, one 5 7/8" long , native name Nalatome , 17/4/33 Laronyo, 4.38 N 32.37 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].
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - Nalatome , amulet pendant. LATUKA, LARONYO, E. SUDAN. 4° 38’ N, 32° 37’ E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 (676) [rectangular metal-edged tag, tied to object; RTS 13/8/2004].
