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Two red leather amulet cases, rectangular and cyli

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

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

Metallurgy

1925-1935

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1910

Small carved wooden comb, 5 teeth, anthropomorphic

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Typical Nilotic tobacco pipe, elbow type, clay bow

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Miniature wooden prayer board

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1910

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

Amuletic stitched leather case slatted onto stitch

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

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

Light wooden patten made from one piece of wood wi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Ornamental Nilotic tobacco pipe, clay bowl in the

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1924

Earthenware skin scraper in the form of a duck

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

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

Earthenware foot scraper in the form of a sitting dog

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

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

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
Selection of eight Iron hunting spears, two without shafts, made and used by the Jur tribe of Sudan, c.1930s.

Sudanese iron spear, 1930s, made and used by the Jur tribe of Sudan

Metallurgy

1930-1938
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
George Rodger material relating to photographic essay `The Nubas of Kordofan' - comprising contact sheets, captions, work prints, tear sheets and final prints. Dated 1949.

The Nubas of Kordofan

Photographs

1949
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
Excavated neolithic maxilla, showing evidence of food packing, Sudanese, 1000-401BC

Excavated neolithic maxilla

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1000-400 BCE
Tooled leather amuletic case on twisted leather thong, square box (oblong in section) with cross-hatched tooled decoration on front

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920
Neolithic infant feeding cup, black earthenware, 1000-400 BC, excavated by Wellcome Expedition at Jebel Moya, Sudan, 1912

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

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1000-400 BCE
Wooden lip-plug, disc-shaped with concaved faces, one of which has zinc lining, Sara tribe, southern Sudan, Africa, 1880-1920

Wooden lip-plug, disc-shaped with concaved faces,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Wooden tobacco pipe stem, tubular, slightly curved, tapered at bottom end for insertion into pottery pipe bowl, strips of tin coiled round stem, Burun tribe, southern Sudan, Africa, 1871-1920

Tobacco pipe stem

Smoking

1871-1920
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
Amuletic necklace consisting of small buff-coloured leather cases interspersed with white beads and four black beads, Shilluk people, Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Amuletic necklace

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Medicine man's amulets, comprising three animal horns strung together on a girdle of hide strip and bootlace, Azande, southern Sudan, Africa, 1900-1930

Medicine man's amulets, comprising three animal ho

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930
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
Excavated neolithic mandible, showing evidence of food packing, Sudanese, 1000-401BC

Excavated neolithic mandible, showing evidence of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1000-400 BCE
Pottery tobacco pipe, bowl only, Nilitic style, bulbous bowl supported on protruding circular foot, stem socket emerges from bowl at acute angle, characteristic "stippling" effect, cross-hatched on foot, bowl rim broken, Shilluk tribe(?), Upper Nile Region, Sudanese, 1880-1920

Pottery tobacco pipe, bowl only, Nilitic style, bu

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Pair of wooden pattens with elaborately carved soles and patterned leather cross over instep straps secured by thongs through holes in wood, used by Hausa, from West Sudan, 1890-1930

Pair of wooden pattens with elaborately carved sol

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930
Smoking tube or snuff box, wooden tube coiled with hide thong, leather strap suspended and attached in a feather and leather stopper and leather pick case, Burrun tribe, Southern Sudan, 1871-1910

Smoking tube or snuff box

Smoking

1871-1910
Back scratcher and hair pin of wood, curving point, finial missing, Hadendoa tribe, Nilotic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Back scratcher and hair pin of wood

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Back scratcher and hair pin of wood, curving point and trumpet-shaped finial, Hadendoa tribe, Nilotic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Back scratcher and hair pin of wood

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Back scratcher and hair pin of horn, curving point and trumpet-shaped finial, Nilotic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Back scratcher and hair pin of horn

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Back scratcher and hair pin of wood, curving point and trumpet-shaped finial, Hadendoa tribe, Nilotic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Back scratcher and hair pin of wood

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Wooden patten, worn by the Nuba as protection against guinea worm, Nuba tribe, Sudan, Africa

Wooden patten, worn by the Nuba as protection agai

Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Tobacco pipe, grey pottery, stub stem variety, heel chipped, probably Southern Sudan, Shilluk, Nuer, Bari, 1870-1920

Tobacco pipe

Smoking

1870-1920
Amuletic necklace consisting of string of disc beads interspersed by human teeth incisors and milk teeth, Gour tribe, Sudan, Africa, 1880-1910

Amuletic necklace consisting of string of disc bea

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910
Bracelet, tortoiseshell on cotton covered wristlet, small brass ring fringe at rear of carapace, Bari tribe, Nilatic Sudan, Africa, 1880-1920

Bracelet, tortoiseshell on cotton covered wristlet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Amulet case of copper containing papers, probably passages from the Koran, Dervish, Sudan, North Africa, 1890-1900

Amulet case of copper containing papers, probably

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1900
Excavated neolithic mandible and maxilla, showing evide of food packing, Sudanese, 1000-401BC

Excavated neolithic mandible and maxilla, showing

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1000-400 BCE