Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893

Description

1. 2 prints : engraving, b&w; 14 x 22 cm.

Summary

1. Depictions of two group dances performed in outdoor settings. In the Latooka funeral dance, men in plumed helmets and animal skins, bearing spears, dance to the accompaniment of a drummer. Women dance in the middle distance, with the huts of a village visible beyond them. The Obbo war dance appears to be performed by men only, armed with spears and shields. The four men in the foreground wear plumed headdresses, and their bodies are painted with stripes.

Alternative title

1. Latooka funeral dance
2. Obbo war dance

Subject

1. Dance -- Africa -- 19th century
2. Lotuko (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites

Genre/Form

1. Engravings.

Contents

1. The Latooka funeral dance -- The Obbo war dance.

Call number

1. *MGZFX Anon Afr 1-2

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.

Biography (note)

1. These prints were illustrations to Sir Samuel White Baker's book The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources, first published in London by Macmillan in 1866, with numerous subsequent editions. They depicted events witnessed by Baker, a British explorer, during the course of an expedition to Albert Nyanza (Lake Albert, located between present-day Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1862-1865. The images were included in the exhibition To the Mountains of the Moon: mapping African exploration, 1541-1880, presented at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University, in 2007.

Title

1. [Two African dances] [graphic].

Imprint

1. [1866?]

Biography

1. These prints were illustrations to Sir Samuel White Baker's book The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources, first published in London by Macmillan in 1866, with numerous subsequent editions. They depicted events witnessed by Baker, a British explorer, during the course of an expedition to Albert Nyanza (Lake Albert, located between present-day Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1862-1865. The images were included in the exhibition To the Mountains of the Moon: mapping African exploration, 1541-1880, presented at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University, in 2007.

Local note

1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Funeral dances.
2. Combat dances.
3. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Africa.

Added author

1. Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893. Associated name

Research call number

1. *MGZFX Anon Afr 1-2