Bari men working bellows
46 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
C.1.14.21.a
Previous Other Number:
Ia
Accession Number:
1998.171.21.1
Description:
A photograph of an illustration (itself derived from an earlier photograph) of two Bari men, one working a bellows and the other cold-working metal against a stone.
Photographer:
Unknown
Date of Photo:
- 1894 (Before)
Region:
?southern Sudan
Group:
Bari
Notes:
Note by Rachael Sparks [Sudan Project, July 6 2005] - "the drawing photographed as 1998.171.21.1 is the image published originally in Ratzel, F., 1894,
Völkerkunde
, and more recently reproduced in R.
Sieber, 1980,
African Furniture & Household Objects
, p.
40.
This depicts a pair of Bari smiths, one cold working a piece of iron with a hammer and the other operating a double bellows.
It might be worth putting a reference on your photo record for this image to object PRM 1922.25.7, which is the stick and hide membrane part of the type of bellows depicted in the image.
Further details on museum catalogue entry for that object." [CM 23/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Unknown
Acquired:
Unknown
Other Owners:
Unknown
Class:
Metalwork , Tool , Graphic Art
Keyword:
Forge , Fire Accessory
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogues - Miscellaneous Technologies, Metalworking, Basketry: Zaire/ Sudan?; Photo of drawing.
2 men with forge and bellows.
Bari group.
gel.p.p.
46 x 78mm.
Recorder:
Jennifer Peck 1/6/2000 Christopher Morton 23/8/2005 [Sudan Project]; Jocelyne Dudding 04/05/2006
