Anuak noble in homestead
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.5.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
1998.342.5.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.5
Previous Other Number:
44 4 (180)
Accession Number:
1998.342.5.2
Description:
A man wearing a long textile body cloth, resting on a long stick, identified as Kuat-wa-Guei, a headman of Pirgwinyo village in eastern Anuakland, standing within a homestead, possibly in his home village.
Several children and other people sit in the homestead behind him.
There is a spear thrust point down in the ground beside him.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Pirgwinyo
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Kuat-wa-Guei
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing , Settlement , Shelter , Social Life , Weapon
Keyword:
Building House , Spear
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.
Notes on print/mount - "44 4 180 Kuat-Guei"
Notes on print/mount - "44 4 180 Kuat-Guei"
Other Information:
The previous electronic catalogue entry relating to numbers EP.AK.1-17 identified the river as Oboth.
I have been unable to confirm this information elsewhere, and so have assumed that the images are of the Akobo river, near which Pochala is situated.
[Chris Morton 12/12/2003] In The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) page 116, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard gives a list of nobles mostly of Thim district and their villages, which includes Kuat-wa-Guei.
[Chris Morton 15/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
