Catalogue of the papers of F.J.L. Atterbury

Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Atterbury, Francis John Laurence
Dates of creation: 1905-1911
Extent: 218 photographs; flag
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Atterbury, Francis John Laurence
Language: English; Arabic

Francis John Laurence Atterbury

(1882 - 1957)


	1904	First appointment to Sudan service
	1911-1914	Inspector, Repression of Slave Trade, Roseires
	1914-1916	Inspector, Repression of Slave Trade, Khartoum
	1916-1918	Inspector, Repression of Slave Trade, El Obeid
	1916	Temporary duty, Inspector, Repression of Slave Trade, El Fasher
	1918	Medical leave
	1919-1920	Chief Inspector, Repression of Slave Trade, Khartoum

Arrangement

1. Photographic Material

2. Museum Objects

Catalogue

1. Photographic Material

(a) Album

SAD.A10/1-192

1905-1911
Album of photographs including:

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Photograph albums

SAD.A10/1

Wadi Halfa, felucca in foreground, taken from a boat in the Nile

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SAD.A10/2

Wadi Halfa, gardens along the edge of the Nile, men sleeping on wall under trees, feluccas moored

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SAD.A10/3

Wadi Halfa from the Nile, houses, mosque in centre and trees

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SAD.A10/4

Engine pulling train out of Wadi Halfa station

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SAD.A10/5

Wadi Halfa station, crowds on platform beside stationary coaches

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SAD.A10/6

Dead giraffe, man holding bridle of horse, another horse in background, 2 other men, scrubby woodland

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SAD.A10/7

Group of men sitting and 2 standing, some with spears

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SAD.A10/8

Tukls with surrounding fences, tebeldi (?) tree in centre

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SAD.A10/9

3 men on horseback, in long grass and scrubby trees, accompanied by dog

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SAD.A10/10, 23

Young woman in rahat with hijab and beads round her neck, Omdurman

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SAD.A10/11

2 horses feeding alongside a track

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SAD.A10/12

Waterhole in rock with woman with water pots on cross-poles, tall trees in background, Nuba Mountains

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SAD.A10/13

Group of tukls, painted yellow

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SAD.A10/14

Khartoum, Blue Nile with 2 feluccas

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SAD.A10/15

Omdurman, group of feluccas moored near bank

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SAD.A10/16

Girl's face and shoulders, hair in small plaits, shillukh marks on cheeks

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SAD.A10/17

Khartoum, Blue Nile, Lord Cromer steamer moored on bank, also feluccas

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SAD.A10/18

Steamer with barges on either side, on White Nile

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SAD.A10/19-21

Omdurman, 4 women with water pots, pots and baskets

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SAD.A10/22

Head of wizened lady, hair in plaits, Omdurman

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SAD.A10/24

Young woman with cloth round waist and hijab round her neck, with 2 baskets of dates, Omdurman

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SAD.A10/25

Erkowit, small chalet, with euphorbia in foreground

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SAD.A10/26

Beja nomad with Euphorbia

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SAD.A10/27

3 men, one pipe-smoking European man and a Beja elder, with bodies of 3 ibex(?)

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SAD.A10/28

Omdurman, young woman, shillukh, hair in plaits, beads round neck

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SAD.A10/29

Omdurman, young woman, wearing rahat, kitab suspended from neck, door and sheet behind

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SAD.A10/30

Omdurman, young woman with beads round neck and in hair

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SAD.A10/31

Omdurman, woman in shirt, skirt and head cloth

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SAD.A10/32

Omdurman, 2 old ladies in tobes, with basketwork tray

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SAD.A10/33

Southern Sudan, young woman with beads at neck and waist, fringed apron, tukls in background

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SAD.A10/34

9th Sudanese on parade, 6 soldiers, with 2 flags

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SAD.A10/35

An anxious mother at small boy's vaccination performed by elderly man

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SAD.A10/36

Shoebill, Balaeniceps Rex

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SAD.A10/37

15th Sudanese, 4 soldiers with kit, on parade

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SAD.A10/38

Donkey boys at Khartoum

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SAD.A10/39

‘Nomad Arabs’ - [Baqqara?] - 2 women on 2 bullocks, with household goods

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SAD.A10/40

‘Nomad Arabs’ [Baqqara?] - groups of herdsmen and women mounted on bullocks, some carrying long spears

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SAD.A10/41

Young lady in tobe

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SAD.A10/42

‘A wandering minstrel’ , carrying large tamborine

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SAD.A10/43

Khartoum light railway train at a station

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SAD.A10/44

Khartoum, the Sirdar's house

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SAD.A10/45

Khartoum, New Hospital

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SAD.A10/46

Omdurman, the Khalifa's house

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SAD.A10/47

White Nile area, granary on stilts

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SAD.A10/48

White Nile area, group of young men outside tukls, long spears propped against tukl

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SAD.A10/49

White Nile area, tukl under construction

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SAD.A10/50

White Nile area, 3 women pounding cassava near tukls

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SAD.A10/51

White Nile Province, group or family outside tukl entrance

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SAD.A10/52

2 men holding long snake, small river in background

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SAD.A10/53

Warthog (?) lying on grass

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SAD.A10/54

Camp - with cloth shelter, camp bed on tripod, young man sitting

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SAD.A10/55

Giraffe sitting before being killed (see SAD.A10/6)

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SAD.A10/56

Group of soldiers outside brick building

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SAD.A10/57

3 European men at tea table, interior

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SAD.A10/58

Soldiers on parade

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SAD.A10/59

Mounted soldier in front of tebeldi tree

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SAD.A10/60

Soldiers mounted on horseback, on parade

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SAD.A10/61

Roseires, children on the backs of ostriches

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SAD.A10/62

Brick houses with thatched roofs under construction, Roseires

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SAD.A10/63

Launch, moored by river bank, Roseires

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SAD.A10/64-65

Young European woman on board a boat

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SAD.A10/66, 68

Small elephant caught near Roseires

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SAD.A10/67

Man holding bridle of pony, thorn fence behind

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SAD.A10/69

‘Packing up’, with tukls behind

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SAD.A10/70

Group of men, women and children outside houses similar to SAD.A10/62, Roseires

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SAD.A10/71

Man in handcuffs, attached to rope, outside houses of SAD.A10/62 Roseires

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SAD.A10/72

Roseires, the Greek's shop

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SAD.A10/73

Captain H.D.G. on Atterbury's verandah, Roseires

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SAD.A10/74

Roseires market

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SAD.A10/75

Roseires(?), view from top of Atterbury's house

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SAD.A10/76

Mud houses and palm trees, Nubia

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SAD.A10/77

Railway coach on wharf, horse in foreground. Egypt?

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SAD.A10/78

Hunting trophies, horns, skulls and antlers laid out on steps

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SAD.A10/79

Roseires, a Khalwa religious school

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SAD.A10/80

Roseires, Atterbury's school

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SAD.A10/81

Man with python, photo from E.W.J.

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SAD.A10/82, 84

Village, with substantial fence and trees

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SAD.A10/83, 85

View of plain from a hill

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SAD.A10/86

H.R.A., European man sitting on fence

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SAD.A10/87

A European camp, with trees, photo from E.W.J.

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SAD.A10/88

Line of men standing beside their horses, amongst trees

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SAD.A10/89

Men with dead elephant

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SAD.A10/90

Attempting to lead horse onto small boat

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SAD.A10/91

Inspection of a line of men, with woman in tobes in background

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SAD.A10/92, 94

1911
Slavery police, Roseires

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SAD.A10/93, 96-98

1905
Slavery police, Roseires

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SAD.A10/95

Capt. McMurdo reclining on armchair on verandah, Roseires

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SAD.A10/99

W.A.L. Fletcher on Roseires verandah

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SAD.A10/100

‘Azrak’, a horse with man holding reins

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SAD.A10/101

‘Colonel’, a horse

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SAD.A10/102

A horse with man holding rein

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SAD.A10/103

2 horses with 2 men holding reins

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SAD.A10/104

2 men under tall trees

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SAD.A10/105

Line of men on horseback

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SAD.A10/106

Trophy of a hunt, antlers

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SAD.A10/107

Killing an elephant

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SAD.A10/108

Trees by a river bank

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SAD.A10/109

4 women carrying round water pots on poles across their shoulders

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SAD.A10/110

Trees

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SAD.A10/111

2 men holding large fish, standing on deck of boat, with firewood

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SAD.A10/112

Village of tukls with trees

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SAD.A10/113

5 elders standing

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SAD.A10/114, 116-117

Pony and trap

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SAD.A10/115, 119

Verandah of brick building

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SAD.A10/118

Verandah of brick houses, 2 European men sitting and one standing

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SAD.A10/120

Man playing golf

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SAD.A10/121

Outside of brick house, with bicycle

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SAD.A10/122

Two-storey building with steps and verandahs

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SAD.A10/123

Calf being fed by hand

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SAD.A10/124

Path through trees to house with brick verandah

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SAD.A10/125

Cattle, men on mules, trees

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SAD.A10/126

Person walking through fields, hillside in background

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SAD.A10/127

Man and boy crouching near slaughtered lion

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SAD.A10/128

Band of men with slaughtered elephant

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SAD.A10/129

Horse held by standing man

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SAD.A10/130

Dead buffalo(?) being sat on by a man, 2 horses in background

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SAD.A10/131

Hill with homestead at its foot

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SAD.A10/132

Tukls near hill, with scrubby trees

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SAD.A10/133

Small naked girl standing by trees at foot of hill

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SAD.A10/134

Woman drawing water from well, mud brick houses in background

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SAD.A10/135

Suakin, street and houses

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SAD.A10/136

Baskets and other utensils, with woven fence in background, young woman holding bark? in hand

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SAD.A10/137

Market scene? Women selling mortars, pestles and bowls?

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SAD.A10/138

Large fish, 72lb being held aloft by 2 men

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SAD.A10/139

Women dancing and clapping at festival

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SAD.A10/140

River bank and trees reflected in still water

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SAD.A10/141

Nubian? woman in dark tobes, carrying spherical water pots on their heads

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SAD.A10/142

Leather workers in market place

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SAD.A10/143

Cattle, tukls, men binding up reeds, the south

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SAD.A10/144

Man with mosque lamps

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SAD.A10/145-148

Abyssinians on the Doude River

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SAD.A10/149

Fishing off a steamer

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SAD.A10/150

Men with face paint, shields and spears in part of a tukl

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SAD.A10/151

Government building under construction, Khartoum?

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SAD.A10/152

Eastern Sudan, goals and pile of firewood

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SAD.A10/153; 155-156; 158, 159

Village of tukls

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SAD.A10/154

Gardens beside a river

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SAD.A10/157

Women collecting water from a riverbed

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SAD.A10/160

Tukls with separate compounds, with administrative offices in rear

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SAD.A10/161-165

Tethered horses in open countryside

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SAD.A10/166

Fishermen with large nets in river bed

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SAD.A10/167

Bull

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SAD.A10/168

Tukl with woman and two children standing outside

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SAD.A10/169-171

Man on horseback

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SAD.A10/172

Man holding reins of horse

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SAD.A10/173

Two men dressed in uniform and fezes, one Egyptian?

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SAD.A10/174

Man holding large fish against a brick wall

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SAD.A10/175-178

Firing practice

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SAD.A10/179

Men at a gathering

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SAD.A10/180-181

Man reclining on a sofa in brick built house

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SAD.A10/182

Outside of verandah of brick built house

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SAD.A10/183

Woman carrying water pots in slings on the ends of poles in wooded area

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SAD.A10/184, 186

Small children and men being lined up

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SAD.A10/185

Two men standing in a circle of others

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SAD.A10/187

Two women with water pots standing in a field, Burun

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SAD.A10/188

Women working in the field, Burun

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SAD.A10/189

Burun women, wearing anklets and dress standing

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SAD.A10/190

Line of Burun girls near a table with tin boxes and a cloth, a walking stick and heavy boots

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SAD.A10/191

Old Burun women with topknot of cloth

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SAD.A10/192

2 Burun men, one smoking a large pipe

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(b) Loose photographs

SAD.2/12/1

Group of armed soldiers in lines of three, with mules, dura in foreground, lightly wooded plain with mountains on horizon

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SAD.2/12/2

Groups of sitting camels, laden and unladen, with trees

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SAD.2/12/3

Horse grazing on field with mountains on horizon

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SAD.2/12/4

Three seated women and two men, with 4 children on a picnic, Europeans

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SAD.2/12/5

House with additional lean to, with European woman standing

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SAD.2/12/6-8

Man with stick, mounted on horse. Neem trees in background

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SAD.2/12/9

Same man on horse as SAD.2/12/6-8, with 3 other men standing

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SAD.2/12/10

Negative, similar to SAD.2/12/6

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SAD.2/12/11

Same man and horse as SAD.2/12/6. Man standing holding leading rein, in a courtyard or street with date palms behind

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SAD.2/12/12

Possibly same man as SAD.2/12/11, standing by large wooden closed gate

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SAD.2/12/13

England, man practising golf outside a bungalow

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SAD.2/12/14

3 European men in Camel Corps uniform standing against a brick wall

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SAD.2/12/15-16

Man in jodhpurs smoking a cigarette, standing against a high brick wall, Roseires?

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SAD.2/12/17-18

Man reclining in armchair in verandah of brick built house, tukl in background, Roseires

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SAD.2/12/19

Man reclining in armchair in verandah of brick built house, `anqarib in foreground, Roseires

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SAD.2/12/20

Colour wash print, gardens with trees and tukl in rear

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SAD.2/12/21

European man on dark horse in field

SAD.2/12/22

Group of men, standing, some running, and under a tree with tukl in background

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SAD.2/12/23

Woman standing on bare rock, possibly in Nuba Mountains

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SAD.2/12/24-25

Hilly coastline, taken from a boat, Mediterranean? Gibraltar?

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SAD.637/6/1

Line up of officials and dignitaries with two Camel Corps[?] soldiers, bunting on wooden supports of verandah, neem trees and pavement

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2. Museum Objects

SAD.4/3

`Ali Dinar's flag (as described by Atterbury according to his wife, the donor).
Natural cotton textile covered with black cotton textile on which are appliqued white and red characters. 4 lines of Arabic script -
Oh Living, oh Compassionate, oh God
Oh Eternal master of honour, of pomp
There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Prophet of God
Good news and success for victory for believers
At the end of each line is a balancing invocation -
Abu Bakr - `Umar
Hamza - al-`Abbas
al-Hasan - al-Husayn
`Ali - Muhammad `Uthman [al-Mirghani?]
Possibly a flag of the Khatmiyyah (Mirghanniyah) tariqah sent as a gift from al-Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani to Sultan `Ali Dinar b. Zakariya
Size: 231 x 134 cm
Language: Arabic

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Digitised material for SAD.4/3 - Ali Dinar's flag


	1. Photographic Material

	(a) Album

	(b) Loose photographs

	2. Museum Objects