Dinka display oxen

115 x 138 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.310.1 - Negative film nitrate , (59 x 55 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Accession Number:

2005.51.310.2

Description:

Several young men leading two display oxen down a path, with tall millet plants and a homestead in the background. The front ox is tawny coloured with large upcurving horns, the one behind is dappled black and white with the left horn trained across the muzzle, a tassle on the right horn, and a large hump. The owners of these prized animals walk close behind them, carrying spear and shield, and probably singing the praises of the animal and its beauty, or else shouting out their ox-name (myoc).

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:

Animal Husbandry , Agriculture and Horticulture

Keyword:

Animal Cattle , Crop Millet

Primary Documentation:

Inscription - ' Godfrey 94 93 Prints' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 19/04/2006]

Recorder:

Alex Nadin 19/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]