Anuak woman threshing millet
159 x 111 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.117.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
2005.51.117.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.117.2
Description:
An Anuak woman threshing millet on the ground outside a hut.
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:
Domestic Life
Keyword:
Crop Millet
Activity:
Threshing , Food Preparing
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogues - Ms ink note on PRM teaching lantern slide [Lienhardt 40] - "'Anuak (Sudan) Threshing Millet" [CM 15/7/2005]
Inscription - 'DINKA + NILOTES (G. Lienhardt. Negs)'; 'These prints have same captions as Lantern Slide Coll. Presumably made in connection with those [CM. 2005]' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 20/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - 'Lienhardt. Threshing Millet (Anuak)' (on reverse of print) [AN 20/04/2006]
Inscription - 'DINKA + NILOTES (G. Lienhardt. Negs)'; 'These prints have same captions as Lantern Slide Coll. Presumably made in connection with those [CM. 2005]' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 20/04/2006]
Notes on print/mount - 'Lienhardt. Threshing Millet (Anuak)' (on reverse of print) [AN 20/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 20/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
