Penannular brass necklet, oval in section, worn by women [RTS 29/3/2004].

Collection type: Object
Description: Penannular brass necklet, oval in section, worn by women [RTS 29/3/2004].
Long description: Simple neck ornament made from a brass rod, slightly oval in section, bent into a loop with open ends, 19 mm apart. Each end has blunt, flat cut edges. The loop itself is oval, rather than round, and is slightly distorted in form. The necklet is complete and intact, with the brass currently a metallic yellow colour (Pantone 872C). The length across the outside edges is 117 mm, the width across 112.3 mm, and the rod has a diameter of 3.2 x 3 mm. The object weighs 26.4 grams [RTS 29/3/2004].
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Eastern Equatoria Navera
Cultural groups: Lotuko; Otuho
Person: Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; Field collector Hannah Powell-Cotton; PRM source Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1933
Date collected: 8th April 1933
Acquisition information: Donated: 1934
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal
Dimensions: Length: max 117 mm, Thick: max 3 mm, Width: max 112.3 mm, Weight 26.4 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1934.8.64 Other numbers: 527
Research and responses: According to “African ethnonyms: index to art-producing peoples of Africa” by Daniel P. Biebuyck, Susan Kelliher and Linda McRae (G.K. Hall & Co.: New York, 1996), the Latuka should be known as Lotuko [CW 23/3/2000]. Lotuko appears to be an alternative name for the Otuho. Powell-Cotton made ethnographic films during his 1932-3 shooting expedition to southern Sudan; footage included a Lotuko blacksmith and his forge and a female Lotuko potter at work (see the description in Mrs Powell Cotton, "Village Handicrafts in the Sudan", Man 34 (112), pp 90-91) [RTS 12/12/2003].

Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament

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