Shilluk Bride - South Sudan #8
by Gloria Ssali
Title
Shilluk Bride - South Sudan #8
Artist
Gloria Ssali
Medium
Painting - Acrylics On Ceramics
Description
The Shilluk, like the other Nilotic-speaking peoples of southern Sudan, have a system of relationship terminology that is commonly known as "descriptive." Legal marital unions are established by the exchange of bride-wealth cattle, which pass from the agnatic kin of the groom to the adult members of the bride's family. A man is commonly 25 years old before his first marriage, whereas it is customary for a young woman marry before she reaches the end of her teen years. A wedding feast in the bride's father's homestead follows the exchange of bride-wealth cattle. At the end of these festivities, the bride and groom return to establish their own homestead in the hamlet of the groom's father. It is reported that a mock battle is enacted between the groom's and the bride's kin, once the last of the promised bride-wealth cattle are given. The ideal number of bride-wealth cattle should amount to at least ten animals, including cows, oxen, and a bull. In addition, the bride's family expects to receive diek nom, a number of sheep, as well as jam nom, gifts of spears and other goods. The latter gifts belong to the parents of the bride, but the sheep are distributed among the bride's agnatic kin. When a wife is pregnant for the first time, it is customary for her to return to her natal village to give birth.
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Dawn Senior-Trask
What splendor, grace and pride! Love revisiting this astonishing and joyous painting! fav
Madalena Lobao-Tello
CONGRATULATIONS!! Featured on Women Painters. Fabulous artwork. Love the colours and composition !!
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations your creative and unique art work is featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary" group!
Will Borden
Hi Gloria~~intriguing art!! The design work on the ceramic, colours, details and subject are superb! Beautifully painted!! F&L!!