Dinka girl with melon
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.76
Description:
A Dinka girl stands with other people in the shade of a large tree, wearing a pubic covering of beaten metal strips hanging from a leather belt, and holding a melon above her head.
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:
Clothing , Food and Drink
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
