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Anyuak noble in homestead


Date of Photo: March-May 1935 by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Anyuak noble in homestead
A full length portrait of a man standing inside a homestead wearing a textile body cloth, identified as Uliimi-war-Akuon, who Evans-Pritchard describes as a nobleman living with maternal kin at Ukwaa in Thim district. There is a small enclosure behind him made of thin stick uprights loosely joined at the top by a twisted length of fibre, and possibly marks a grave. Bundles of thatching grass are stacked in the homestead, some next to a raised granary.