Anuak king with stool and spear-rest

Anuak king with stool and spear-rest
60 x 60 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.85.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.85
Previous Other Number:
44 4 (176)


Accession Number:
1998.342.85.1
Description:
Just out of frame is King Aguaa-war-Akuon of Obuodhi village, with a royal stool standing on a skin beside him the royal spear-rest holding a spear.
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:
Weapon , Furniture Dwelling , Shelter , Insignia
Keyword:
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.

Note on negative m/s ink - "176"

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 photograph of him 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 5/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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