Dinka youths dancing
 
   59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate 
     
   
 
 
Date of Print: 
Unknown 
 
Accession Number: 
2005.51.366 
Description: 
A group of Dinka youths performing leaping movements holding long dance sticks and wearing bells on their legs. 
Many of the youths have handkerchiefs or other pieces of fabric suspended from their belts. 
They are facing a line of girls performing their dance movements thrusting their arms forwards. 
In the background is the tall metal pole seen in other images from this dance ground. 
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: 
Dance , Music 
Keyword: 
Dance Accessory , Musical Instrument Bell / Rattle 
Activity: 
Dancing 
Event: 
Dance 
Recorder: 
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project] 
  

