Anuak headman's homestead
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.333
Description:
A youth standing in the entrance to an Anuak village headman's homestead, surrounded by extended fence posts carved with numerous notches.
Several animal skulls (big cat?) can be seen placed high on a forked branch to the right.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1952 - 1954
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
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:
Shelter , Carving , Insignia
Keyword:
Fence
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
