Anuak girls pounding grain

Anuak girls pounding grain
60 x 60 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.119.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.119
Previous Other Number:
44 (151)


Accession Number:
1998.342.119.1
Description:
Two girls bring down long wooden pestles to pound grain (probably millet) in ?wood-lined mortars sunk into the ground. Other girls look on with large gourd vessels for collecting the flour nearby.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Pochala
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Domestic Life , Food and Drink , Vessel
Keyword:
Crop Millet , Vessel
Activity:
Food Preparing
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S. SUDAN, DARFUNG. VARIOUS TRIBES. Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.

Note on negative m/s ink - "151"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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