Baka woman
135 x 90 mm | Print albumen paper
MountDimension:
240 x 310 mm
Condition:
Poor, overall fading, dirt ingrained. Fragile mount corners. [E. E. 9/95]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
B.3.1.49b
Previous Other Number:
85 195
Accession Number:
1998.203.1.49.2
Description:
A vignette head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a Baka woman with lip ornaments and 'barbed harpoon' style cicatrices on her shoulder.
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:
Ornament , Physical Anthropology , Body Art
Keyword:
Ornament Lip , Body Art Skin
Primary Documentation:
Notes on mount ms pencil - "85 Abaka negro and negress"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "195"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "195"
Recorder:
Elizabeth Edwards 6/9/95 Christopher Morton 14/6/2005 [Sudan Project]
