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Anyuak King


Date of Photo: March-May 1935 by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Anyuak King

A portrait of King Aguaa-war-Akuon of Obuodhi village sitting on a stool with another royal stool beside him and a leopard skin laid out in front. He is wearing the royal strings of beads, which are used to invest all new Anyuak kings, and are identified with the founder of the nobles lineage. The royal spear-rest holding a spear can also be seen to the right.