- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- A photograph of an illustration (itself derived from an earlier photograph) of two Bari men, one working a bellows and the other cold-working metal against a stone.
- Geographical reference
- ?southern Sudan
- Cultural groups
- Sudanese Bari
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: Before 1894
- Photographic process
- Print gelatin silver
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 46 x 78 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1998.171.21.1 Previous PRM number: C.1.14.21.a Previous other number: Ia
- Research and responses
Note by Rachael Sparks [Sudan Project, July 6 2005] - "the drawing photographed as 1998.171.21.1 is the image published originally in Ratzel, F., 1894, Völkerkunde, and more recently reproduced in R. Sieber, 1980, African Furniture & Household Objects, p. 40. This depicts a pair of Bari smiths, one cold working a piece of iron with a hammer and the other operating a double bellows. It might be worth putting a reference on your photo record for this image to object PRM 1922.25.7, which is the stick and hide membrane part of the type of bellows depicted in the image. Further details on museum catalogue entry for that object." [CM 23/8/2005]
Search terms: Metalwork, Tool, Picture and Graphic Art
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