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Didinga Hills (mountains)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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Didinga girls at Chukudum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/163
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They wear sporrans of beads laboriously ground from the shell of an ostriches egg. These sporrans are only worn by the unmarried girls. Necklaces and girdles are also made from the ostrich egg'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Didinga girls at Chukudum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/164
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They wear sporrans of beads laboriously ground from the shell of an ostriches egg. These sporrans are only worn by the unmarried girls. Necklaces and girdles are also made from the ostrich egg'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Didinga girls at Chukudum, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/165
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They wear sporrans of beads laboriously ground from the shell of an ostriches egg. These sporrans are only worn by the unmarried girls. Necklaces and girdles are also made from the ostrich egg'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Hills, taken on the way to Murikurum which lies at the north end of the Dongotona Mts [i.e. Mountains], 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/166
Scope and Contents

Panoramic view

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/157
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They live in the Didinga Mountains in the S.E. Sudan. They wear extraordinary headdresses of ancestral hair'. The page also includes a small hand-drawn illustration of their geographical position in Sudan.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/158
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They live in the Didinga Mountains in the S.E. Sudan. They wear extraordinary headdresses of ancestral hair'. The page also includes a small hand-drawn illustration of the tribe's geographical position in Sudan.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/159
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They live in the Didinga Mountains in the S.E. Sudan. They wear extraordinary headdresses of ancestral hair'. The page also includes a small hand-drawn illustration of the tribe's geographical position in Sudan.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/160
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'They are unable to put their heads on the ground, so always have to use headrests like this at night'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/161
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'They are unable to put their heads on the ground, so always have to use headrests like this at night. Horrible cicatrizations'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Didinga Tribe, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/162
Scope and Contents

Showing a member of the Didinga Tribe.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).