Bari homestead

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

1967.26.309

Description:

A view down from the side of a steep hill, possibly Belinian, towards a Bari homestead, comprising a large and several smaller huts in a fenced compound. The Seligmans carried out investigations among the Bari of Belinian and Ali Bey in Jan 1922, before moving south to the Torit area among the Lotuko-speaking people there.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1922 January

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Belinian

Group:

Bari

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter

Keyword:

Village , Building House

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.

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "Bari compounds. C.G. Seligman. cf. p.242"

Other Information:

The reference to p.242 is a plate showing another view of Bari homestead in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932). [Chris Morton 26/10/2004]

Recorder:

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