1976-1984
A Murle warrior with facial scarring
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A smiling warrior wearing a lion’s mane
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman carrying gourds beside a water pool during the dry season, a time of dearth
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Typically dispersed housing clusters in Murleland
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Grass houses located in family homesteads
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Murle shelter from the heat in grass houses
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Wildlife seeking shade under trees in the dry season
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
White-eared kob leaping through tall grass
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Two male kob at a mating lek
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Kob on their 700-mile annual migration
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Fire and smoke in dry grassland: “when the grass is yellow it is burned off”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Tiang hartebeest, attracted to the green grass
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Inundated landscape: “during the rains Murleland becomes a broad lake”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Broad lake and low trees under clouds: “the rainy season restricts foot travel”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
“In the dry season wildlife converges on the rivers”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Cow herd with two herders in a parched landscape, taken from the air: “pasture can be hard to find in the dry season”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Cow herd and herders at a watering place: “herd boys take the cattle to water every day”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Cattle are sometimes branded, this one with circular motifs
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Tethered cows with tukls in the background: “cattle are tethered every night within the compound”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Boy milking a white cow, with another boy and a dog beside him: “milk is the main food of the lowland Murle”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Dead white bull lying under thatched coverings: “bulls are often sacrificed to get God’s attention”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
“A young man ready for battle”, carrying pole shield and wearing zebra skin and earrings
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Young man with skin coated with white ash: “ashes can be adequate clothing”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man seated beside a smoking fire beating a drum held under his legs with a stick: “the beating of a drum sets the beat for a dance”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A dancer, wearing headdress and armknife, blows a horn made from the windpipe of a giraffe
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A girl wearing beads and a white feather “dressed up for the dance”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man wearing lion mane headdress and smoking, viewed from behind: “the epitome of elegance”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Men and women at a dance, the men wearing skins of kob, jackal and patas monkey
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Men dancing, some in skins some in shorts: “dancers jump up and down in rhythm”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Warriors wearing giraffe man headdresses
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Circle of men dancing before a line of women: “age-sets arrange dances in the harvest season”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Women with fish baskets: “women are the primary fishermen”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Women fishing at a pond in large numbers
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Women submerged in a pond up to their waists: “they can fish out a pool in a couple of hours”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman leaning down to recover a fish from a submerged basket: “women reach into their baskets and seize a fish”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman standing in a pond biting a fish held in her hand: “they kill the fish by biting it behind the head”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman standing in a pond with her catch strung around her waist
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man tending to a fishing dam: “men make fish traps”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A man wearing shorts handles a long fish trap: “traps are placed in gaps in a small dam”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A man empties an upended fish trap on dry ground: “tilapia and catfish are abundant”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A dead fish lying beside a fish trap in the grass: “fish are eaten or dried for future use”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Boys sliding down a shute of water spilling down an earth embankment into a water pool, a village in the background: “boys will be boys”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Boys sliding down a shute of water spilling down an earth embankment into a water pool: “mudslides can be hard on the backside”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A group of 3 women and 4 children, some bearing loads on their heads: “heading off on a dry season migration”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Three infants among tree trunks: “rest after a long day of walking”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A long bundle of food, a cooking pot and gas canisters: “food for the migration - with a focus on dried meat”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Small temporary hut on migration, an infant seated inside among skin beds
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A young boy weaving a circular dead-fall mouse trap
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A highland village of grass huts among trees, with a group of women and children at work
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A grass roofed house in the highlands, a child carrying a stick walking in the foreground
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Murle women in a highland village, one carrying a rolled skin bed on her head and another carrying a child on her back
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A family of highland Murle, seated in a village
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Desert rose in bloom, a relative to the baobab
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Honey beer brewing in a large black clay pot
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Close-up of three circlets of “ancient blue beads offered to God”, attached to a branch
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Close-up of a necklace made of bird talons, plastic bottle caps, and metal waste, hanging around a person’s neck
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A person holding a thumb harp in both hands and making music
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Playing the universal mbao game: a close-up of hands, feet and the playing board and shiny metal counters
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Braiding a rope
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Knife hanging from a man’s neck against his back, a safety pin attached to an upper-arm ring: “knife at the ready”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Close-up of torso scarification marking age-set, featuring snakes and ?zebra
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Group of mainly women and children and a dog on migration, the women bearing loads on their heads
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Grass covered house in empty flat grassland, a woman carrying a child in the foreground
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Weaver bird perched on a stalk of grain: “chasing weaver birds out of the grain fields”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A woman seated on a watch platform made of branches raised above a field of grain: “women on guard duty”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A sheaf of sorghum, a primary crop
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
A man carrying sorghum hung over a wooden pole: “harvest time”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Cleaned sorghum in a container stacked within two other metal and earthenware containers
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Seated woman threshing grain
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Murle girl with beads
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Women with front teeth extracted to hold lip plug
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Young woman wearing earrings and beads: “the sultry look”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman repairing a grass roof
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Young woman wearing necklace: “girl being coy”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Old man wearing the hair wig of his dead father
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man wearing a wig made of goat hair, carrying a stool over his shoulder and a large bird’s wing
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Smiling man wearing headdress with black feather, necklace and earrings: “old elephant hunter”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Warrior brushing his teeth with a twig, with scarified torso and arms and metal bracelet
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Murle girl with oiled hair
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Murle woman, seated beside village grass hut
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Youth, wearing earrings and beaded and hair necklaces, with skin coated in ash
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man with large white bracelet crouched beside a hubble-bubble gourd pipe
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man wearing metal earrings and animal skin
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Male white-eared kob
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man with spear walking among low trees: “on the hunt for kob”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Men with spears forcing a wounded kob to the ground: “making a kill”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Two men, one with a load of meat balanced on his head: “taking the kob meat home”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Man bending over butchered kob carcasses: “sharing out the meat”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Twenty men and boys with spears and animal carcasses grouped under a tree beside water: “successful hunt at the ‘tree of meat’”
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Woman and child, with necklace of snail shells, on migration, surrounded by belongings packed in skins, dogs and kids
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Child playing with corn
1 digital photograph

1976-1984
Two Murle warriors
1 digital photograph