Bari woman wearing beads
134 x 90 mm | Print albumen paper
MountDimension:
240 x 310 mm
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
B.3.1.19a
Previous Other Number:
38 177
Accession Number:
1998.203.1.19.1
Description:
An upper body profile portrait of a seated Bari woman wearing a large belt of bead strings, tied together at the front.
She is also wearing a large metal pendant around her neck as well as metal arm and wrist rings.
It seems likely that this image was taken shortly before October 1878 when Buchta reached Lado (Juba) on board S.S.
Safia.
Photographer:
Richard Buchta
Date of Photo:
1878
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Gondokoro
Group:
Bari
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)
PRM Source:
Unknown
Acquired:
Unknown
Other Owners:
Unknown
Class:
Bead , Ornament
Primary Documentation:
Notes on mount ms pencil - "38 Bari woman"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "177"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "177"
Recorder:
Elizabeth Edwards 5/9/95 Chris Morton 14/6/2005 [Sudan Project]
