Anuak woman threshing millet

59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.117.2 - Print gelatin silver , (159 x 111 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

2005.51.117.1

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]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]