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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Günther Schlee 2008

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Visit to Shanduk, a Nuer "leopard skin chief" in Kurgeng. Dereje taped a long interview with him about the history of his family and their special relationship to God.

Among the photographs taken:
  • A plate of gifts to Shanduk;
  • Items used by Shanduk to illustrate this story:
    • Gourd
    • Stone from river
    • Calabash as rattle
    • Knife
  • Background (inside the dwelling):
    • Leopard skins
    • Cheetah skins
    • Smaller cats' skins
    • Intestinal fat (mora) drums
  • Outside the dwelling:
    • Mound
    • Poles
    • Sacrificial altar.

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While having a rest outside in the shade of a tree, I was approached by kind young men who offered me help and to put me up for the night. They thought that I was an NGO worker who had been displaced from the Sudan by the recent fighting. It took me a while to convince them that I was alright, that I had come from the other side, that I was not terribly exhausted as they thought, but just a bit tired of sitting, that I had friends in the area and that we even had a car. In the end I succeeded in turning down their humanitarian offers. Very nice of them.