Shilluk reaping tool
Accession Number:
[1922.25.13]
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan?] [White Nile]
Cultural Group:
Shilluk
Date Made:
By July 1922
Materials:
Mussel Shell
Field Collector:
? Charles Gabriel Seligman & ?Brenda Zara Seligman
PRM Source:
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Acquired:
Donated July 1922
Collected Date:
By July 1922
Description:
Mussel-shell used for cutting off
durra
heads in reaping.
Collected by Charles Gabriel Seligman, presumably while conducting fieldwork in the Southern Sudan, and donated to the museum in July 1922. It is given only a generic provenance of 'the White Nile'.
Rachael Sparks 30/9/2005.
Collected by Charles Gabriel Seligman, presumably while conducting fieldwork in the Southern Sudan, and donated to the museum in July 1922. It is given only a generic provenance of 'the White Nile'.
Rachael Sparks 30/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry
[VII, p.
46] - 1922 [pencil insert] 25 [end insert]
Dr C.G.
SELIGMAN
, F.R.S., Court Leys, Toot Baldon, Oxon.
July - Specimens collected by himself during 1922, viz:
1922.317
[pencil insert] 13 [end insert] - Mussel-shell used for cutting off durra heads in reaping, SHILLUK, WHITE NILE.
Additional Accession Book Entry [VII, p. 25 top, in pencil] - blue numbers not valid & not on specimens. Inserted by an assistant in error.
Additional Accession Book Entry [VII, p. 25 top, in pencil] - blue numbers not valid & not on specimens. Inserted by an assistant in error.
