Portrait of an Anuak group
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.377
Description:
A full length portrait of a woman wearing a body cloth with her arm round the back of a young man wearing European shirt and shorts.
To their right is a young mother with a baby on her hip.
This is apparently the third in a series of portraits of women sitting under this tree, and in two of them it is clear that the women have exchanged the textile wrap to wear for their portrait.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1952 - 1954
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei
Group:
Anuak
Notes:
Biographical Information - Godfrey Lienhardt carried out fieldwork among the Anuak during 1952-1954 as a Research Fellow of the International African Institute, with funding intially provided by UNESCO for the study of African cosmological ideas and social values.
He later wrote a two-part article entitled 'Anuak Village Headmen' (
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
.
1957.
27(4).
pp.341-355 & 1958.
28(1).
pp.23-26.
[CM 15/7/2005]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Textile , Body Language , Child Care
Keyword:
Textile
Other Information:
The subjects of this portrait can be seen in 2005.51.360 and 2005.51.376.
[CM 28/7/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
