Anuak chicken house

Anuak chicken house
60 x 60 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.178.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.178
Previous Other Number:
2 (18)


Accession Number:
1998.342.178.1
Description:
A grass chicken house raised on high legs to avoid predators, at the edge of a compound in the village of Burathoi in Nyikaani on the Akobo, with cleared fields surrounding. Predominantly agriculturalists, the Anuak clear the fields (often in forest soil) sometime around March and April and sow maize and millet in May as the rains come on.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Burathoi
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Building Animals , Field
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 - "18"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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