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Anyuak show of respect


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

A woman with a small boy crawling on her knees past men gathered (out of frame) under Evans-Pritchard's canvas tent put up at Pochala. The Anyuak show respect by bowing in the presence of social superiors such as members of noble lineages, and especially to village headmen.