Lotuko finger ring
Other views of this artifact:
Accession Number:
1934.8.77
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Navera
Cultural Group:
Lotuko [Otuho]
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Brass Metal
Process:
Hammered , Bent , Polished
Dimensions:
Max Diam [external] = 21.5 mm Max Diam [internal] = 17 mm Max W [rod] = 2 mm
Weight:
3.1 g
Local Name:
nagetum
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife on 8th April 1933 during a shooting expedition
Field Collector:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton & Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Brayton)
PRM Source:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Acquired:
Donated 1934
Collected Date:
8th April 1933
Description:
Finger ring formed from a single brass rod, oval in section, bent into a loop with the ends touching.
One end has been slightly flattened.
It is complete and intact, and the surface has been polished to a metallic yellow colour (Pantone 871C).
The ring has an outer diameter of 21.5 mm, an internal diameter of 17 mm, while the rod from which it has been formed is 2 mm wide and 3 mm thick and weighs 3.1 grams.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Navera on 8th April 1933, during a shooting expedition.
These finger rings are worn by girls, and are known as nagetum. For a similar ring, see 1934.8.78.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Navera on 8th April 1933, during a shooting expedition.
These finger rings are worn by girls, and are known as nagetum. For a similar ring, see 1934.8.78.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry [p.
248] 1934 [insert] 8 [end insert] - MAJOR P.
H.
G.
POWELL-COTTON, Quex Park, Birchington, E.
Kent.
Specimens collected by himself & Mrs Cotton, during hunting trips, 1933, viz: [...] [p.
252] - From the LATUKA tribe, NAVERA, TORIT, LARONYO.
[p.
256, insert] nos given 77-78 [end insert] - [One of] 2 Girl’s finger rings of brass wire, nagetum, ib[idem] [NAVERA] (522).
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the catalogue card [RTS 28/5/2004].
Written on box - (522). Pair of girl's rings, nagetum . LATUKA, NAVERA, E. SUDAN. c. 4° 30' N., 32° 30' E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton, 1934. 1934.8.77 & .78 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Pitt Rivers Museum label - 1934.8.77 E. SUDAN LATUKA NAVERA. Girl's ring - [rev] nagetum d.d. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Tribe Latuka". This object appears as item 522: "Pair brass wire rings, girl's, native name Nagetum, 8/4/33 Navera, about 4.30 N 32.30 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the catalogue card [RTS 28/5/2004].
Written on box - (522). Pair of girl's rings, nagetum . LATUKA, NAVERA, E. SUDAN. c. 4° 30' N., 32° 30' E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton, 1934. 1934.8.77 & .78 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Pitt Rivers Museum label - 1934.8.77 E. SUDAN LATUKA NAVERA. Girl's ring - [rev] nagetum d.d. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Tribe Latuka". This object appears as item 522: "Pair brass wire rings, girl's, native name Nagetum, 8/4/33 Navera, about 4.30 N 32.30 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
