Anuak village stockade

Anuak village stockade
83 x 53 mm | Negative film nitrate
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1998.342.36.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 53 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.36
Previous Other Number:
05 4 (259)


Accession Number:
1998.342.36.1
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
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 - "259"

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 17/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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