Rek Dinka ox sacrifice
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.168.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
2005.51.168.3 - Print gelatin silver , (140 x 120 mm)
2005.51.168.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
2005.51.168.3 - Print gelatin silver , (140 x 120 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.168.1
Description:
A group of men in a homestead gathered around a thrown sacrificial ox (muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity).
Branches of sweet dhot foliage lie over a dark muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity, already sacrificed to the left.
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
Publication History:
Research publication - This image has been published in Christiane Falgayrettes-Levau (ed.),
Animal
(Éditions Dapper, Paris, 2007), p.58: 'DINKA/ SOUDAN/ Sacrifice d'un bovin/ Photo Godfrey Lienhardt, vers 1947-1951/ Collection Godfrey Lienhardt/ © The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [PG 04/12/2007]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Death
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Sacrifice
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
