What is "shilluk"

Usage examples of "shilluk".

Then he had four large storerooms stacked to the ceiling with dried cattle hides bartered from the pastoral Dinka and Shilluk tribes to the south.

The Shilluk and Dinka tribesmen who inhabited the banks of the river wore no clothing of any description.

Professor Evans-Pritchard and the Shilluk of the southern Sudan a thousand years later.

We can only understand the place of the kingship in Shilluk society when we realise that it is not the individual at any time reigning who is king, but Nyikang who is the medium between man and God, and is believed in some way to participate in God as he does in the king.

The king must be killed to save the kingship and with it the whole Shilluk people.

The Shilluk of the White Nile, perhaps, whose custom it once was to wall up their king, together with a nubile virgin, to die in the dark of hunger and thirst?