Rek Dinka ox sacrifice
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.172.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
2005.51.172.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.172.1
Description:
Branches of sweet dhot foliage laid over a sacrificed dark ox, its tethering peg placed under its muzzle.
This ox (sacrificed just before Lienhardt (whose Dinka ox-name was Thienydeng) arrived at the site) was a muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity.
Another ox seen in other images awaiting sacrifice was a muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity.
The occasion of the sacrifice was the funerary ceremony of an old master of the fishing-spear of the Agwok tribe of the Rek Dinka, held in a village on the boundary between the Agwok and that of the close neighbouring Apuk.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka Rek Agwok
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Death
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Sacrifice
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
