Portrait of two Dinka girls
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.177.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm)
2005.51.177.3 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm)
2005.51.177.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm)
2005.51.177.3 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
2005.51.177.1
Description:
A portrait of two young Dinka women laughing with their arms around each other.
They are both wearing numerous strings of beads around their waists above skin aprons, as well as bead strings ornamented with shell or bone ornaments around their necks.
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 , Bead
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Body , Ornament Neck
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
