Rek Dinka ox sacrifice

140 x 120 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.168.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

2005.51.168.3

Description:

A group of men in a homestead gathered around a thrown sacrificial ox (muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity). Branches of sweet dhot foliage lie over a dark muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity, already sacrificed to the left. 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

Publication History:

Research publication - This image has been published in Christiane Falgayrettes-Levau (ed.), Animal (Éditions Dapper, Paris, 2007), p.58: 'DINKA/ SOUDAN/ Sacrifice d'un bovin/ Photo Godfrey Lienhardt, vers 1947-1951/ Collection Godfrey Lienhardt/ © The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [PG 04/12/2007]

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

Primary Documentation:

Inscription - ' Godfrey 94 93 Prints' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 11/04/2006]

Recorder:

Alex Nadin 11/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]