Rek Dinka ox sacrifice
57 x 56 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.171.2
Description:
A group of men in a homestead gathered around and restraining a thrown sacrificial ox (muor nhialic, the ox of Divinity) whilst its throat is cut by a man with a fishing spear.
Branches of sweet dhot foliage lie over a muor yath, a bull of the clan-divinity, already sacrificed to the left.
The occasion of the sacrifice was the funerary ceremony of an old master of the fishing-spear of the Agwok tribe of the Rek Dinka, held in a village on the boundary between the Agwok and that of the close neighbouring Apuk.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Warab
Group:
Dinka Rek Agwok
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Ritual , Death
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Sacrifice
Primary Documentation:
Inscription - '
Godfrey
- DINKA
107
prints 105 Black & White' (on envelope containing prints) [AN 05/04/2006]
Recorder:
Alex Nadin 05/04/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
