Rek Dinka bull-calf sacrifice
111 x 153 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.475.1
Description:
A tawny bull-calf (markings known as mayan) tethered to a peg, provided by a spear-master's sister's son, with members of the Pagong and Payi spear-master clans of the Agwok sub-tribe of the Rek Dinka surrounding it.
Libation milk is being poured over the tethering peg.
The occasion of this sacrifice was the recurring illness of the master of the fishing-spear, this time seemingly brought about by an unclaimed fishing-spear that had turned up in his homestead, said to have been left by a witch.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka Rek
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate IVa (facing page 112) in Godfrey Lienhardt's
Divinity and Experience: the religion of the Dinka
(Oxford University Press 1961), with the caption 'a.
Libation'.
[CM 05/07/2006]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Animal Husbandry , Vessel
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Vessel Gourd
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Sacrifice
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA 150 prints - Black & White (1 photo - coloured)' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 10/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 10/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
