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25th July 2016, 08:59 PM
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My dinka/shilluk club thread
the pitts river references seem to indicate they were mostly used as 'slave clubs' to discipline captives. not the most PC occupation nowadays. The Shilluk Kingdom was located along the banks of the White Nile river in modern South Sudan. Its capital and royal residence was in the town of Fashoda |
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26th July 2016, 02:30 AM
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Location: Germany
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Dinka club
Tim, sorry to say, but this Donald Gunn was wrong, or Pitt Rivers (where much stuff is wrong labeled). Gunn collected at Bor. A little town where you can't find only one Shilluk, they are more north. Bor is Dinka region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilluk_people Capital town of the Shilluk Fashoda is right, it's today Kodok north from Malakal. Here akso a good ethnic map http://mapeastafrica.com/wp-content/...UDYAREAETH.jpg . Last not least a Dinka warrior in more modern times, but with his old club. https://www.flickr.com/photos/32977742@N08/3178521767 |
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26th July 2016, 06:55 AM
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I'm liking it Wodimi. The trouble when revered institutions like Pitt-Rivers gets things wrong. The errors are perpetuated as staff come and go over time. The gravitas of the institution does not encourage revision or questioning.
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