See also:DINKA (called by the See also:Arabs Jange)
, a widely spread See also:negro See also:people dwelling on the right See also:bank of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Nile to about 12° N., around the mouth of the See also:Bahr-el-Ghazal, along the right bank of that See also:river and on the See also:banks of the See also:lower See also:Sobat
.
Like the See also:Shilluk, they were greatly harried from the See also:north by Nuba-Arabic tribes, but remained comparatively See also:free owing to the vast extent of their See also:country, estimated to See also:cover 40,000 sq. m., and their See also:energy in defending themselves
.
They are a tall See also:race with skins of almost See also:blue See also:black
.
The men See also:wear practically no clothes, married See also:women having a See also:short See also:apron, and unmarried girls a fringe of See also:iron cones See also:round the See also:waist
.
They See also:tattoo themselves with tribal marks, and See also:extract the lower incisors; they also See also:pierce the ears and See also:lip for the See also:attachment of ornaments, and wear a variety of See also:feather, iron, See also:ivory and See also:brass ornaments
.
Nearly all shave the See also:head, but some give the See also:hair a reddish See also:colour by moistening it with See also:animal See also:matter
.
See also:Polygamy is See also:general; some headmen have as many as See also:thirty or more wives; but six is the See also:average number
.
They are See also:great See also:cattle and See also:sheep breeders; the men tend their beasts with great devotion, despising See also:agriculture,
which is See also:left to the women; the cattle are called by means of drums
.
See also:Save under stress of See also:famine cattle are never killed for See also:food, the people subsisting largely on See also:durra
.
The Dinkas reverence the cow, and See also:snakes, which they See also:call " See also:brothers." Their See also:folklore recognizes a See also:good and evil deity; one of the two wives of the good deity created See also:man, and the dead go to live with him in a great See also:park filled with animals of enormous See also:size
.
The evil deity created cripples
.
The See also:Dinka came, in 1899, under the See also:control of the See also:Sudan See also:government, See also:justice being administered as far as possible in See also:accord with tribal See also:custom
.
A compendium of Dinka See also:laws was compiled by See also:Captain H
.
D
.
E
.
O'See also:Sullivan
.
See G
.
A
.
See also:Schweinfurth, The See also:Heart of See also:Africa (1874); W
.
See also:Junker, Travels in Africa, Eng. edit
.
(See also:London, 1890—1892) ; The Anglo-See also:Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:Count See also:Gleichen (London, 1905)
.
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