Dinka ox sacrifice

23 x 35 mm | Transparency

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)
2005.51.136.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

2005.51.136.3

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]

Inscription - 'DINKA Godfrey 2 Slides (one appeared in his book. (Divinity & Experience)' (on sticky note attached to wallet containing slides) [AN 20/04/2006]

Recorder:

Alex Nadin 20/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]