Anuak village stockade
83 x 53 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.136.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 53 mm)
1998.342.136.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 53 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.136
Previous Other Number:
05 4 (253)
Accession Number:
1998.342.136.1
Description:
The huts of Dibango village seen from a distance over a stretch of dry cracked earth.
Around the village is a derelict stockade of branches stuck in the ground, and in front of that a shallow ditch or moat, erected in the past as a form of defence against raids.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Dibango
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , [Warfare]
Keyword:
Fence , Building House
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 - "253"
Note on negative m/s ink - "253"
Other Information:
The same stockade and moat is reproduced in Plate IVa of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) facing page 40, with the caption 'Remains of stockade and moat at Dibango'.
[Chris Morton 17/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
