Dinka youth dancing
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.431.1
Description:
A Dinka youth at a dance gathering wearing a strip of leopard-skin around his waist (dhok) raising his arms above his head, mimicking the horns of his display-ox.
As Oxford anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt noted, the curving of the arms is one of the forms of 'handsomeness' (dheng), a bodily attitude which the Dinka consider graceful.
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:
Dance , Clothing Accessory , Body Language
Keyword:
Dance Accessory
Activity:
Dancing , Gesturing Hand
Event:
Dance
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
