Shilluk people on river bank

Shilluk people on river bank
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.98.2 - Print gelatin silver , (57 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown


Accession Number:
2005.51.98.1
Description:
Looking from the side of a riverboat as it comes in to moor at the landing stage, with Shilluk people on the bank and in the shallows meeting it. Two men have taken the anchor some distance away and are attempting to fix it into the ground. In the foreground a Shilluk man with sculpted hair is about to hand a skin bag with wooden objects inside to someone on board.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Upper Nile
Group:
Shilluk
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Navigation , Toilet , Body Art
Keyword:
Rivers & Streams , Hair , Body Art Head
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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