D.O.'s office in Gogrial
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.115
Description:
A group portrait of four Dinka men outside the large thatched District Officer's building in Gogrial.
The D.O.
there during 1948-1953 was Ranald Boyle (known in Dinka as tim atiep or the shading-tree, which in turn is a metaphor for the black macar cattle colouring).
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab Gogrial
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Shelter
Keyword:
Building Official
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogues - Ms ink note on PRM teaching lantern slide [Lienhardt 17] - "'Flounced' thatch on D.O.'s square roof" [CM 15/7/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
