Lutuko homestead

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.h.39

Accession Number:

1967.26.302

Description:

A tall cone-shaped hut in a homestead, probably of the rain-making family of Tarangole, the main Lotuko village. The largest such huts were said to be some thirty feet high, with palm-leaf thatch touching the ground, an interior of some twenty feet across that included a subdivision by a low wall. 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 January

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Tarangole

Group:

Lotuko

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Shelter , Settlement

Keyword:

Building House , Village

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.39. Lotuko"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.h.39. Lotuko. CGS."

Other Information:

The Seligmans mention this sort of Lotuko hut on page 307 in C.G. & B.Z. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932).

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [26/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]