Dinka ?ritual activity
59 x 56 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.448.1
Description:
A Dinka man sitting cross-legged in the foreground with other men and youths surrounding him.
Smoke is drifting across the gathering.
It is possible that this is a ritual event and that this man is a ritual expert.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
?Ritual
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA
107
prints 105 Black & White' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 06/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 06/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
