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:
2005.51.136.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
2005.51.136.3 - Transparency , (23 x 35 mm)
2005.51.136.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
2005.51.136.3 - Transparency , (23 x 35 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.136.2
Description:
A white sacrifical ox tethered near to the forked shrine (ghoro) of a Dinka homestead, a large hut in the background with some men gathered there in discussion.
In the similar published image [2005.51.459], a man is seen making an invocation over the ox.
Branches of sweet dhot foliage lie over a dark muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity, already sacrificed to the right.
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
Notes:
A related image to this [2005.51.459] is published as Plate Va (facing page 113) in Godfrey Lienhardt's
Divinity and Experience: the Religion of the Dinka
(OUP 1961), with the caption 'a.
Invocation'.
[CM 20/7/2005]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Shelter
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA 150 prints - Black & White (1 photo - coloured)' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 06/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - 'Praying Heap of leaves covers a previous sacrifice that day' (on reverse of print) [AN 06/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - 'Praying Heap of leaves covers a previous sacrifice that day' (on reverse of print) [AN 06/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 06/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
