Dinka cattle hearth

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.g.6 (356)

Accession Number:

1967.26.210

Description:

A number of circular cattle-dung hearths surrounded by loose branch fences placed in the centre of the cattle pen in a homestead at Bor. Such fires or smudges were made to help keep away pests such as mosquitos from cattle mostly during the rainy season, and sometimes during the dry season, by enveloping the kraal in thick smoke.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Bor

Group:

Dinka

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XVII Fig.2 (facing page 188) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Bor, Cattle hearth" [CM 2/9/2005]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Settlement , Fire

Keyword:

Cattle Camp

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.6. Dinka cattle kraal. (356)"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.g.6. Dinka cattle kraal. CGS. 356"

Recorder:

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