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DINKA (called by the Arabs Jange)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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