Portrait of a Mandari youth

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.h.37

Accession Number:

1967.26.300

Description:

A head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a Mandari youth, with the number 278 hanging against the backdrop. The Seligmans visited the peoples south of the Dinka during an expedition in 1921/22, and described meeting Shir and Bari peoples on both sides of the Nile as they progressed south.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910 March

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel [vicinity of Nile]

Group:

Mandari

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXVII Fig.1b (facing page 298) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Bari-speaking tribes, types 1. Mandari" [CM 2/9/2005]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology

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.37. Mandari"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.h.37. Mandari. CGS."

Other Information:

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 4/10/2004]

Recorder:

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