Dinka shrine
80 x 51 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.355
Accession Number:
1998.346.355
Description:
A cleared area, presumably within a homestead, with a post-shrine and two smooth beaten mounds, one of which is larger and incorporates three 'humps' on the top.
A note on the print reverse indicates that this is a buor, the Nuer term for the firescreen of the homestead, which often incorporates such humps and is frequently the locus for ritual activity, being symbolically associated with the female sphere of activity.
This buor is evidently not used as a firescreen but may be a ritualized development of it.
Photographer:
Unknown
Date of Photo:
1935 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Ritual Object , Religion
Keyword:
Shrine
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry: [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD 1966.27.17 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled.
(some missing).
Nos.
1 - 213.
(prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of prints each in separate envelope.
Nos.
1 - 213.
(negatives in 1966.27.17.)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Dinka buor"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Dinka buor"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [11/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
