Gule man

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Condition:

small crack left hand side [Chris Morton 4/10/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.b.43 (255, 256)

Accession Number:

1967.26.64

Description:

A physical anthropology composite image of the profile and full face of a Gule man, described as a Hameg by Seligman, who he met on Jebel Gule. Seligman later wrote that he doubted the ethnological use of the term Hameg (meaning 'ignorant' in arabic), used by Arabs to refer to disparate peoples of the Fung province.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910 March

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Gule

Group:

Gule

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Both full face and profile images are reproduced as Plate XLIII/1a+b (facing page 420) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Darfung types...Above, Jebel Gule" [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.b.43. Hameg. Alleged pure (255 and 256)."

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.b.43. Sudan. Hameg. Alleged pure. CGS. 255 & 256."

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 1/10/2004] Biographical Information - The Seligman's visited Jebel Gule in 1910, who said of the place that 'all that remain of its former greatness are two small settlements of people who call themselves Fung and appear to be generally known as Hameg...[a]t the time of our visit in 1910 the Gule language was disappearing rapidly; the settlement had been decimated by the Khalifa's forces and the young men and women had all been killed or taken captive, so that the population consisted of elderly men who had escaped, and having procured young wives had returned to their village. The children were growing up to speak Arabic only.' in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932) p.416-8. [Chris Morton 5/10/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [5/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]