Baka homestead
202 x 146 mm | Print albumen paper
MountDimension:
240 x 310 mm
Condition:
Poor, overall fading dirt ingrained in mount fragile corners
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
B.3.1.48
Previous Other Number:
84 203
Accession Number:
1998.203.1.48
Description:
A view across a spatious homestead organised around a central courtyard.
In the centre of the frame is a raised granary with several people sitting in its shade.
Just beyond are two enormous shrine posts with a forked post adjacent, a man leaning on arm over it as he talks to a woman opposite him.
The huts beyond have thatches that extend low over the walls, almost touching the earth, with small door apertures.
Buchta made an excursion to the groups west of the Nile in 1879 setting out from Juba on 7th July and returning there on 26th August.
Photographer:
Richard Buchta
Date of Photo:
1879 July - August
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Odio?
Group:
Baka
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Richard Buchta,
Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften
.
Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta.
(Berlin 1881.
Verlag Von J.
F.
Stiehm)
Notes:
In H.
B.
Thomas' article 'Richard Buchta and Early Photography in Uganda'
Uganda Journal
Vol.
25, no.
1, 1960, p.
116, he notes that 'Buchta seems to have remained at Lado until on 7 July he set off for Makaraka whence he returned on 26 August.
The fruits of this journey appear in a number of photographs in his album.' [CM 16/6/2005]
PRM Source:
Unknown
Acquired:
Unknown
Other Owners:
Unknown
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Religion
Keyword:
Village , Building House , Building Storage , Shrine
Primary Documentation:
In Negative - "Ferme de la tribu Abaka.
Afrique Centrale"
Notes on mount ms pencil - "84 View of Abaka farm"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "203"
Notes on mount ms pencil - "84 View of Abaka farm"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "203"
Recorder:
Elizabeth Edwards 6/9/95 Christopher Morton 14/6/2005 [Sudan Project]
