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Anyuak sacred tree burial
Date of Photo: March-May 1935 by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Anyuak sacred tree burial
Northside View
Anyuak sacred tree burial
Eastside View
Anyuak sacred tree burial
Southside View
Anyuak sacred tree burial
Westside View
The above 4 photos are a large and sacred Tamarind tree, located to the west of Pochala near some falls on the Akobo river. This sacred tree was known as "Aboori" after a woman who was buried (wrapped in mats and thornwood) in its branches.