Lotuko rain-maker

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.h.31

Accession Number:

1967.26.294

Description:

The Lotuko rain-maker Ikang (left) with a companion, standing in front of a tall conical hut. Ikang was the widow of three earlier rain-makers and was held in high esteem by locals. 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:

1922

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Tarangole

Group:

Lotuko

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as the Frontispiece to C.G. & B.Z. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Ikang, the Lotuko rain-maker (left), and companion". [CM 2/9/2005]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Ritual

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.31. Lutuko - rainmaker and companion."

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.h.31. Lutuko - rainmaker and companion. CGS. Latuka, Ikang (shorter) & companion"

Recorder:

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