Gathering of Dinka youths

Gathering of Dinka youths
113 x 116 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.186.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown


Accession Number:
2005.51.186.2
Description:
A number of Dinka youth seated together, perhaps at a dance or ritual gathering, wearing textile hair coverings, and with ash smeared on their faces and bodies.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Toilet , Body Art , Social Life
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - ' Godfrey 21 prints 18 19 Black & White DINKA' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 11/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 11/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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