Dinka ritual
57 x 56 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.201.2
Description:
A Dinka man adopting a warlike pose and brandishing a small uprooted bush towards the camera along a path leading to a homestead, with a group of men behind him kneeling on the ground - possibly as part of a ritual activity.
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:
?Ritual
Activity:
?Ritual Activity
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA
107
prints 105 Black & White' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 05/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - '0 12' (printed on reverse of print) [AN 05/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - '0 12' (printed on reverse of print) [AN 05/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 05/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
