Lotuko rain-spear

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Condition:

horizontal crack near top [Chris Morton 18/10/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.h.29

Accession Number:

1967.26.292

Description:

A drawing of a double-bladed sacred spear (entitled "Latuka Rain-Spear") seen by the Seligmans at the circular shrine outside the house of the female rain-maker Ikang at Tarangole, the main Lotuko village. The Seligmans visited Lotuko country in the early part of 1922, and according to their diary they travelled between these villages by bicycle.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

c.1920s

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Tarangole

Group:

Lotuko

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Another drawing of the same spear is reproduced as Fig 21 (page 331) in C.G. & B.Z. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Tarangole, double-blaed rain-spear". [CM 2/9/2005]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Weapon , Graphic Art , Ritual Object

Keyword:

Spear , [Shrine]

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.h.29. Rain-spear of Lotuko"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.h.29. Rain-spear of Lotuko. CGS."

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [25/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]