[Houses and groups of people of the city of Kordofan in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]
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[Houses and groups of people of the city of Kordofan in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]
From Kordofan, the Country that Time Forgot
1949
Gelatin silver print
Image: 28.2 x 20.7 cm
Gift of Todd Gitlin, 2005
2005.0914.0012
Inscriptions verso (typed labels): [title and description]
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library, 186 High Holborn, W.C.1. Must Be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Please Credit George Rodger - Magnum /Magnum Photos Inc. / 55, West 8 Street, New York City II / London Representative Elizabeth Reeve [?] 185, High Holborn Street, London W.C.1 ? Must be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Used 22 Oct 1949 Illustrated
verso (pencil) please paint on this head
verso (pencil): Illus Oct. 22 p.23
verso (pencil): GR-500
verso (pencil): 2500/DS/10/02
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library, 186 High Holborn, W.C.1. Must Be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Please Credit George Rodger - Magnum /Magnum Photos Inc. / 55, West 8 Street, New York City II / London Representative Elizabeth Reeve [?] 185, High Holborn Street, London W.C.1 ? Must be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Used 22 Oct 1949 Illustrated
verso (pencil) please paint on this head
verso (pencil): Illus Oct. 22 p.23
verso (pencil): GR-500
verso (pencil): 2500/DS/10/02
TextSlave raiders drove the Nuba tribes deep into the Jebel country of the Sudan. There they sought self preservation, and there they built primitive homes. Throughout the centuries the Nuba tribes became decentralized and the people inhabiting each individual group of Jebels soon developed their own characteristics. Each group adopted a language of its own until today there are fifty groups. Geo Rodger of Magnum visited the villages to show the simplicity with which these people live in a land which is a "closed area" to travellers [sic] without permits.
