Dinka shrine-post
79 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.435
Description:
The forked shrine-post of a Dinka Master of the Fishing Spear with banded fishing-spears leaning against it.
To the left are several shrine mounds with a mother and child and another older woman standing next to a hut.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VI (facing page 176) in Godfrey Lienhardt's
Divinity and Experience: the religion of the Dinka
(Oxford University Press 1961), with the caption 'Spear-master's shrine and spears'.
[CM 05/07/2006]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Religion
Keyword:
Shrine
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA
107
prints 105 Black & White' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 05/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 05/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
