Dinka raised huts

82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass

MountDimension:

82 x 82 mm

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous Other Number:

V.g.35 (339)

Accession Number:

1967.26.239

Description:

Two Dinka huts near Shambe, raised on piles above the ground to prevent Nile flood waters from entering the houses during the wet season. A boy can be seen sitting on one of the platforms around the hut.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman

Date of Photo:

1910

Region:

[Southern Sudan] El Buheyrat Shambe

Group:

Dinka Cic

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XIV Fig.2 (facing page 138) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Dinka huts in wet season flood area, near Shambe" [Chris Morton 20/10/2004]

PRM Source:

London School of Economics and Political Science

Acquired:

Donated 1967

Other Owners:

C. G. Seligman slide collection

Class:

Shelter

Keyword:

Building House

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.g.35. Dinka wet season houses at Shambe."

Note on lantern slide - "V.g.35. Sudan. Dinka huts in wet season flood area, near Shambe. CGS. 339"

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 6/10/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [20/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]