Jebel Gule graves

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.g.44 (509)

Accession Number:

1967.26.247

Description:

A number of stone grave markers, some with flags, possibly on the lower slopes of the steep sided massif, rising some 1,000 feet out of the Blue Nile plain, and with a circumference of some five miles. The Seligman's visited this location during their 1910 expedition to make investigations into physical anthropology as well as aracheology.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910 March-April

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Gule

Group:

Gule

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Death

Keyword:

Grave Marker

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.44. Jebel Gule. Gravas [sic.] (509)"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.g.44. Jebel Gule. Gravas [sic.]. CGS 509"

Other Information:

The Seligman's visited Jebel Gule in 1910, who said of the place that 'all that remain of its former greatness are two small settlements of people who call themselves Fung and appear to be generally known as Hameg...[a]t the time of our visit in 1910 the Gule language was disappearing rapidly; the settlement had been decimated by the Khalifa's forces and the young men and women had all been killed or taken captive, so that the population consisted of elderly men who had escaped, and having procured young wives had returned to their village. The children were growing up to speak Arabic only.' in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932) p.416-8. [Chris Morton 29/9/2004] The ethnologue gives Gule as the correct (although extinct) term for Fung. [Chris Morton 29/9/2004] 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]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [21/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]