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:
2005.51.172.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

2005.51.172.2

Description:

Branches of sweet dhot foliage laid over a sacrificed dark ox, its tethering peg placed under its muzzle. This ox (sacrificed just before Lienhardt (whose Dinka ox-name was Thienydeng) arrived at the site) was a muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity. Another ox seen in other images awaiting sacrifice was a muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity. 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

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]