In 1948 and 1949 erstwhile war photographer George Rodger ventured to southern Sudan as the first Westerner officially permitted to photograph the peoples of the Nuba mountains. While Rodger's black and white images gained fame -- and inspired filmmaker and one-time Nazi propaganda maker Leni Riefenstahl to visit in the 1960s and 70s -- his color photographs, shot on a Leica with Kodachrome film, remained unpublished until now.

See the pictures below, as published by CNN at http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/05/africa/george-rodger-nuba-latuka-sudan/index.html

the pictures depict local wrestlers and traditional events such as that of the Latuka people, called the Rain Dance.

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Bracelet fighters of the Kao-Nyaro in 1949. Made of brass and weighing up to 5 pounds. The instrument can break a man's skull.

A native horn, made of the end of an elephant's tusk and covered with stretched skin of an ox's tail, being sounded by a warrior.