Rek Dinka ox sacrifice

Rek Dinka ox sacrifice
56 x 56 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.168.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown


Accession Number:
2005.51.168.2
Description:
A group of men in a homestead gathered around a thrown sacrificial ox (muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity). Branches of sweet dhot foliage lie over a dark muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity, already sacrificed to the left. The occasion of the sacrifice was the funerary ceremony of an old master of the fishing-spear of the Agwok tribe of the Rek Dinka, held in a village on the boundary between the Agwok and that of the close neighbouring Apuk.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka Rek Agwok
Publication History:
Research publication - This image has been published in Christiane Falgayrettes-Levau (ed.), Animal (Éditions Dapper, Paris, 2007), p.58: 'DINKA/ SOUDAN/ Sacrifice d'un bovin/ Photo Godfrey Lienhardt, vers 1947-1951/ Collection Godfrey Lienhardt/ © The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [PG 04/12/2007]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Death
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Sacrifice
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - ' Godfrey - DINKA 150 prints - Black & White (1 photo - coloured)' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 06/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 06/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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