Lotuko rattles
Accession Number:
1934.8.81
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Eastern Equatoria Loronyo
Cultural Group:
Lotuko [Otuho]
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Plant Fruit Husk , Metal
Process:
Perforated
Dimensions:
L = 172 Mm, Diam of seed: 32 mm, OL of CHAIN BETWEEN SEEDS = 172 mm
Local Name:
asiligili
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife on 17th 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:
17th April 1933
Description:
A pair of spherical fruit shells containing loose pellets and joined together by a chain.
Inside the pod one link of the chain at each end is fastened over a short piece of stick which has been wedged into the pod.
These are used as rattles.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Loronyo on 17th April 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Lotuko name for this type of object is asiligili.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at Loronyo on 17th April 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Lotuko name for this type of object is asiligili.
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] 81 [end insert] -
Asiligili
, pair of spherical fruit-shells containing loose pellets & joined by a chain, used as rattles.
LARONYO (682).
Additional Accession Book Entry [p. 255] - 1937.8.87. Number given HLR.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 28/5/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Latuka Tribe". This object appears as item 682: "Nut rattle with iron chain, native name Asiligili , 17/4/33 Laronyo, 4.38 N 32.37 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].
Additional Accession Book Entry [p. 255] - 1937.8.87. Number given HLR.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the tribes catalogue card [RTS 28/5/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Latuka Tribe". This object appears as item 682: "Nut rattle with iron chain, native name Asiligili , 17/4/33 Laronyo, 4.38 N 32.37 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].
