Portrait of Dinka women, youth
108 x 62 mm | Negative film nitrate
Condition:
Negative split from bottom to centre [CM 29/7/2005]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.413
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of two Dinka women wearing animal skin, strings of beads around the waist and coiled metal armbands, lip ring and pendants braided into the hair on the forehead, with a youth wearing similar beads and holding a club standing alongside them.
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:
Ornament , Weapon , Clothing Skin
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Body , Ornament Lip , Ornament Hair , Club
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
