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Studio portrait of Mahbouba um Zanuba
Studio portrait of Mahbouba um Zanuba
Object Number 60-42-50/13190.1.3
Display Title Studio portrait of Mahbouba um Zanuba
Descriptions
Object Description written on board: "Soudan / 60-42"; stamped on page: "Divison of Anthropology / Harvard University"; printed on page: "Mahbouba um Zanuba. (Soudanese Woman.) / This thick-lipped matron of forty from the Soudan was said to have been married at thirteen and to have been the mother of twenty-three children. She has / had four husbands, all of whom are dead, her last husband dying in captivity after the fall of Khartoum. Along the shores of the Blue and White Niles and their / tributaries, these people live in villages constructed of baked mud. The Mohammedan religion dominates the entire country, and thus distinguishes these polyglot tribes / from the peoples farther to the South who practise feichism and other heathen ceremonials. Each village is goverened by a sheik. Squalor and poverty prevail; / " (continued under remarks)
Department Photographic
Date 1894
Culture
  • Sudanese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sudan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 35.2426 × 25.0826 cm (13 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

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