Anuak King
60 x 60 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.74.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
1998.342.74.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.74
Previous Other Number:
44 4 (173)
Accession Number:
1998.342.74.1
Description:
A portrait of a seated man (identified as King Aguaa-war-Akuon of Obuodhi village) sitting on a stool with another royal stool beside him and a leopard skin laid out in front.
He is wearing the royal strings of beads, which are used to invest all new Anuak kings, and are identified with the founder of the nobles lineage.
The royal spear-rest holding a spear can also be seen to the right.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Obuodhi
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Aguaa-war-Akuon
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing , Insignia , Shelter , Carving , Furniture Dwelling , Ornament , Weapon
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm , Building House , Spear , Animal Leopard
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 - "173"
Note on negative m/s ink - "173"
Other Information:
Aguaa-war-Akuon is referred to in several places in 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), and a similar image to this is reproduced facing page 128, with the caption "Aguaa-war-Akuon, the present king, wearing the royal necklaces and seated on one of the royal stools" [Chris Morton 22/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 22/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
