
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 22cm
Description
View of Dinka men and women carrying spears and ambatch parrying shields (and wearing ormanents and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal. Dances were frequent occurrences, and often accompanied events such as marriages and deaths.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.36630.1
Format
Film negative
Country
Sudan
Region
[Southern Sudan]; Upper Nile; near Malakal
Cultural Group
Dinka
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
1939
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