Portrait of a Dinka youth
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.296
Description:
An upper body portrait of a Dinka youth wearing an ivory arm ornament, as well as neck ornaments including bead strings, giraffe hair loops and a crescent-shaped pendant.
One bead string seems to be suspended from his lower lip.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Lip
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]