Dinka dance
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panchromatic , Negative film Safety
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Sudan etc.4.26
Accession Number:
2004.130.36631.1
Description:
A group of Dinka youths carrying spears and wearing ornaments and other dance gear at a funeral dance near Malakal.
A youth in the foreground is wearing a wild cat skin at the waist.
Dances were frequent occurences, often accompanying events such as marriages and deaths.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1939
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Malakal
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Acquired:
Accepted as Art in Lieu of Inheritance Tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Pitt Rivers Museum, March 2004
Other Owners:
n/a
Class:
Weapon , Dance , Ornament , Clothing Skin
Keyword:
Spear , Shield , Ornament Head , Ornament Arm
Event:
Mortuary ritual Funeral , Dance
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
39/DINKA 1939/Dinka dancing at a funeral near MALAKAL' Note on album page ms pencil - "DINKA" (left of album page) [Elin Bornemann 25/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [12/12/2003] Christopher Morton [27/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
