Anuak man smoking water-pipe
 
   59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate 
     
   
 
 
Date of Print: 
Unknown 
 
Accession Number: 
2005.51.104 
Description: 
A man smoking a gourd water-pipe within a homestead courtyard. 
To the left a man is partially seen sitting on an animal skin rug. 
This partially-visible man wearing sandals is seen in several other images from within this homestead. 
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: 
Narcotic , Furnishings 
Keyword: 
Pipe , Mat 
Activity: 
Smoking 
Primary Documentation: 
Manual Catalogues - Ms ink note on PRM teaching lantern slide [Lienhardt 41] - "Anuak (Sudan). 
Smoking a water pipe"  [CM 15/7/2005] 
Recorder: 
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project] 
  

