Anuak mother in homestead
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.379
Description:
A mother with a baby on her hip stands in the fenced courtyard just outside the low entrance to a hut, surrounded by dometic objects, gourd vessels and pots.
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 , Shelter , Child Care , Vessel
Keyword:
Vessel Gourd , Vessel Pottery
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
