BEADED COIFFURES 112211 NOTES 1. John Mack, “Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in South-Eastern Sudan.” In Museum Ethnographers Group, no. 12, October 1981, Nairobi, p. 117. 2. Description on the Pitt Rivers Museum Web page: prm. ox.ac.uk 3. John Petherick, Egypt, The Soudan and Central Africa, Edinburgh, 1861, p. 440. 4. Georg Schweinfurth, The Heart of Africa, 2 vols., London, 1873; Im Herzen von Afrika, Leipzig, 1874, p. 43. 5. The drawings can be seen on the Frobenius Institute’s Website: frobenius-insitut.de EBA-B02221, EBA-B02335. The objects themselves are in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (e.g., inv. III A 321) and the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève (MEG inv. ETHAF 011110 “Nilote20e s”). 6. Samuel White Baker, The Albert N’yanza, Great Basin of the Nile ... 2 vols. London, 1866, p. 45. 7. Coincidentally, Petherick and his wife happened to be in Gondokoro at the same time to buy a large amount of ivory. 8. Baker, op cit., 132f. 9. Georg Schweitzer, Emin Pascha: Eine Darstellung seines Lebens und Wirkens mit Benutzung seiner Tagebücher, Briefe, Berlin, 1898, p. 195f. 10. Two of the hair helmets collected among the Latooka by Emin Pascha are illustrated on page 778 of Stuhlmann’s book Mit Emin Pascha ins … . They are now in the Weltmuseum in Vienna (inv. 12.980 and 14.318). The author also mentions that either iron or copper was used for the metal portion of the helmets, depending on the warrior’s fi nancial means. Unfortunately the metal plates are missing from all known extant examples. 11. Schweitzer, Emin Pascha, p. 182. 12. Schweitzer, Emin Pascha, p. 151. 13. A. B. Lloyd, Church Missionary Review, vol. 55 (1904), p. 818. 14. Percy Powell-Cotton, In Unknown Africa: A Narrative..., London, 1904. 15. Powell-Cotton, ibid, p. 397. 16. Mack, op. cit., p. 118. 17. L. F. Nalder (ed.), A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province, 1937, p. 77. 18. Other examples published or in museums: Africa: The Art of a Continent, p. 139; Acholi in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, inv. MAF8780; Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (identifi ed as Dinka, but probably Latooka, inv. III A 465). 19. Leni Riefenstahl, Africa, Cologne, 2002, pp. 226–227. FIG. 15 (right): Men’s beaded bodice. Dinka, South Sudan. Mid 20th century. Glass beads, animal skins, wood, cowry shells. H: 110.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 2001.177. Isabel Shults Fund, 2001. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Art Resource/Scala, Florence.
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