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Earthenware skin scraper in the form of a duck

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Earthenware foot scraper in the form of a sitting dog

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Earthenware foot scraper in the form of a whale

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Foot-scraper in the form of a camel

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Foot scraper in the form of a crocodile

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Brown earthenware foot scraper

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Foot-scraper in the form of a man riding a crocodile

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Tooled leather amuletic case, Sudanese, c. 1890-1920.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Quer (maloda) used by the Jur Tribe for hoeing, c 1930.

Metallurgy

1925-1935

Small carved wooden comb, 5 teeth, anthropomorphic

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Amuletic stitched leather case slatted onto stitch

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Sudanese-Arabic weight, circular disc type,1 Rotl

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Two red leather amulet cases, rectangular and cyli

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Sudanese-Arabic weight, circular disc type,1 Rotl

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899
Black earthenware skin scraper in form of baboon with ear to ground, base forms rasp, probably Sudanese, 1880-1930

Earthenware skin scraper in form of baboon

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Wooden prayer board or 'lohn', Sudan, 1801-1910

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1910

Sudanese-Arabic weight, ornamental ring type, 1 Okich/Wiokiyeh

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Pottery tobacco pipe, bowl only, Nilitic style, bu

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Typical Nilotic tobacco pipe, elbow type, clay bow

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Miniature wooden prayer board

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1910

Sudanese-Arabic weight, ornamental ring type,1/2 Rotl

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Sudanese-Arabic weight, ornamental ring type, 1 Rotl

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Horn amulet in the form of a whistle containing a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Horn amulet in the form of a whistle, used by the

Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Leather amulet case, rectangular, flat, tooled design, loop attachment at one small end, picked up on the battlefield, Dervish, Sudanese, 1880-1920

Leather amulet case

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Leather amuletic case, rectangular, flat, stitched and sealed, tooled design, picked up on a battlefield, Dervish, Sudanese, 1880-1920

Leather amuletic case

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Small green and brown leather amulet case with fretwork pattern, from Sudan, 1880-1910

Amulet case with fretwork pattern

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Tobacco pipe

Smoking

1871-1920

Tobacco pipe with ovoid bowl and turbular stem

Smoking

1880-1920

Light wooden patten made from one piece of wood wi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Tobacco pipe with bulbous bowl

Smoking

1880-1920

Gazelle's tooth amulet, vernacular `Nab el Ghazal'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1932

Sudanese-Arabic weight, ornamental ring type, 2 Okich/Wiokiyeh

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Leather covered amulet case with cloth lining flap

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Wooden patten made from single piece of wood with

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Rectangular stitched leather amulet case, possibly

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Black earthenware skin scraper, with rasp base, top zoomorphic, Sudanese, 1880-1930

Earthenware skin scraper

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Light wooden, patten made from one piece of wood w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Patten carved from single piece of wood with holes

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Sudanese-Arabic weight, circular disc type,1/2 Oke

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899
Leather amuletic case, rectangular, sealed, looped at top for thong (missing), tooled with design on one surface, picked up on a battlefield, Dervish, Sudanese, 1871-1920

Leather amuletic case

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920
Photograph entitled 'Korongo Nuba Wrestlers of Kordofan, South Sudan', by George Rodger, 1949. From collection of material relating to the photographic essay `The Nubas of Kordofan', comprising contact sheets, captions, work prints, tear sheets and final prints.

Korongo Nuba Wrestlers of Kordofan, South Sudan

Photographs

1949
Tobacco pipe, grey pottery, stub stem variety, heel chipped, probably Southern Sudan, Shilluk, Nuer, Bari, 1870-1920

Tobacco pipe

Smoking

1870-1920
Wooden patten with elongated toe on 2 wooden supports which have iron, embroidered leather toestap is fraying, thought by Nuba people to protect against infection by guinea worn, Sudan, 1890-1920

Wooden pattens (shoes), Sudan, c. 1890-1920.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920
Excavated neolithic maxilla, showing evidence of food packing, Sudanese, 1000-401BC

Excavated neolithic maxilla

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1000-400 BCE
Neolithic infant feeding cup, black earthenware, 1000-400 BCE, excavated by Wellcome Expedition at Jebel Moya, Sudan, 1912

Neolithic infant feeding cup, Africa, 1000 BCE-400 BCE

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1000-400 BCE
Nilotic clay tobacco pipe, double headed bowl with large heel, long tubular cane stem, spherical gourd mouthpiece (broken) iron smoking tongs attached to stem by cord, Shilluk tribe, Sudanese, 1880-1920

Nitolic tobacco pipe

Smoking

1880-1920
Excavated neolithic mandible, showing evidence of food packing, Sudanese, 1000-401BC

Excavated neolithic mandible, showing evidence of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1000-400 BCE
Shaft from hunting spear, made and used by the Jur people of Sudan, Africa, 1930-1932

Shaft from Sudanese hunting spear

Metallurgy

1930-1932
Cupping horn, tip of horn with pointed end removed, for bleeding patients, Dinka, Sudan, East Africa 1880-1920

Cupping horn, tip of horn with pointed end removed

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920