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Sharing food at funerals

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: Pots filled with food as part of the tradition of sharing food at funerals.
Country location: Sudan
Sharing food at funerals

Angareeb

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: A folk bed known as "Angareeb" which is woven from wool and by traditional and local manufactures
Country location: Sudan
Angareeb

A photograph of the Labor Day founding ceremony

Collection: rashidphotostudio.rashidphotostudio
Description: A photograph of the Labor Day founding ceremony
Country location: Sudan
A photograph of the Labor Day founding ceremony

White Nile, Shilluk Tribesmen Roofing Hut, Doleib Hill

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: White Nile, Shilluk tribesmen roofing hut, Doleib Hill
Country location: Sudan
White Nile, Shilluk Tribesmen Roofing Hut, Doleib Hill

White Nile, Shilluck Tribesmen Roofing Hut, Doleib Hill

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: White Nile, Shilluck tribesmen roofing hut, Doleib Hill
Country location: Sudan
White Nile, Shilluck Tribesmen Roofing Hut, Doleib Hill

Sufi ceremony

Collection: frederiquecifuentes.sufitraditionsinsudan
Description: Collective ritual. Disciples have to follow certain rules of conduct and spiritual exercises in order to progress towards God and to elevate themselves to the ranks of the pure. Men gather beneath the Burhani banner during the long night of Holiya to begin the ritual of Hadra, also known as Dhikr, from midnight until dawn. Disciples arranged in rows perform increasingly rapid rhythmic movements. They begin with a semi-circular motion from right to left and continue upright while flexing their legs. Dhikr is the spiritual method consisting of incantation of the name of Allah together with these specific movements. The objective of Dhikr is to purify the hearts of disciples and to bring them to a subtle and refined state of ecstasy. Women do not participate directly in Dhikr but allow themselves to be absorbed by the melodies sung by the Munshidin who cast a spell over this holy night. Khartoum, Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
Sufi ceremony

White Nile Two Nuer Tribesmen

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: White Nile, two Nuer tribesmen
Country location: Sudan
White Nile Two Nuer Tribesmen

Eastern Sudan

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: A group of men wearing the traditional clothes of eastern Sudan
Country location: Sudan
Eastern Sudan

White Nile, Six Shilluk tribesmen

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: White Nile, Six Shilluk tribesmen
Country location: Sudan
White Nile, Six Shilluk tribesmen

A view of Khartoum's central station

Collection: nationalrecordsoffice.images
Description: Men in their national costumes of white robes 'Jalabeya' and turbans, walking by commercial shops.
Country location: Sudan
A view of Khartoum's central station

Nuer scarification marks

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders profile portrait of an initiated man with heavy lines of scarification on the forehead. The operation (gar) is a severe one which causes much blood loss, across the forehead from ear to ear. Boys were normally initiated between the ages of 14-16, and a group initiated during a number of successive years belong to an age-set. After initiation a youth is prohibited from milking, able to marry, gains a spear and an ox from which he takes his ox-name, and was able to go on cattle raids against the Dinka.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuer scarification marks

Portrait of a Mandari man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A three-quarter length portrait of a Mandari man wearing an arabic-style tunic and red, yellow and green beads around the neck. He has a number of radiating decorative scars on the forehead, which both sexes adopted from the Dinka, although without the connotations or ritual of initiation which accompany such markings among that group.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Mandari man

Anuak hair dressing

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Ojo) having his hair dressed by another who is crouching behind him. Spears are stuck in the ground beside them and an antelope skin is stretched out behind.
Country location: South Sudan
Anuak hair dressing

Bracelet fighting

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Male wrestlers (bracelet fighting), at a gathering at Talodi.
Country location: Sudan
Bracelet fighting

Zande magic whistle

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Kamanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's servants) posed blowing a magic whistle (kura). Such whistles are mostly worn about the body and are used for a variety of purposes, such as to ward off witchcraft. They are made from plants and horns with magical associations, such as zerengbondo, a type of creeper.
Country location: South Sudan
Zande magic whistle

Father Christmas

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Man (identified as George Bredin) dressed as Father Christmas.
Country location: Sudan
Father Christmas

Mandari doctor of powers

Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A portrait of a man seated on a deckchair, identified as Kok (also known as Ajayich) who was an Atuot by birth, but who had lived since childhood with maternal kin in Mandari. As a doctor of powers he practicised locally, divining in the case of possession and advising in matters spiritual. He is wearing a thick ivory arm ornament, which at that time was a prestigious object worn by wealthy people.
Country location: South Sudan
Mandari doctor of powers

Portrait of a Zande witchdoctor

Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A full length portrait of a Zande binza or witchdoctor standing beside a hut, wearing rattles, skins, medicines and other attire of the corporation.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Zande witchdoctor

Nuba wrestlers

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: View of two men wrestling during a funeral ceremony.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuba wrestlers
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