Brian McMorrow photographs items attributed to C.G. Gordon. Khalifa House Museum, Omdurman, 2009.
Often misattributed to General Gordon, these items had been discovered in Gordon's trunk (since having passed into the possession of a Mahdist amir) by E.J. Montague-Stuart-Wortley after it was captured in 1897 outside Berber. The items contained therein were an amirs full cavalry suit, subsequently presented to the Khalifa house museum, see: E.J. Montague-Stuart-Wortley, "My Reminiscences of Egypt and the Sudan (from 1882 to 1899," Sudan Notes and Records 34, no. 1 (1953), 41; Griselda El Tayib, Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan (2017), 33; Hiba Uthman Abd al-Karim, Mathaf bayt al-Khalifa fi Omdurman (2023), 100, 127 figs. 74-77.
Colorful Gibba belonging to General Gordon
Brian McMorrow photographs items attributed to C.G. Gordon. Khalifa House Museum, Omdurman, 2009.
Often misattributed to General Gordon, these items had been discovered in Gordon's trunk (since having passed into the possession of a Mahdist amir) by E.J. Montague-Stuart-Wortley after it was captured in 1897 outside Berber. The items contained therein were an amirs full cavalry suit, subsequently presented to the Khalifa house museum, see: E.J. Montague-Stuart-Wortley, "My Reminiscences of Egypt and the Sudan (from 1882 to 1899," Sudan Notes and Records 34, no. 1 (1953), 41; Griselda El Tayib, Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan (2017), 33; Hiba Uthman Abd al-Karim, Mathaf bayt al-Khalifa fi Omdurman (2023), 100, 127 figs. 74-77.