Aka men brick-making
103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.154.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.154.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.154
Previous Other Number:
N 2
Accession Number:
1998.344.154.1
Description:
A group of men digging shallow holes to loosen earth for bricks using ebony poles.
This earth is moistened with water fetched by women and then fine grass is added.
The mixture is then placed in moulds and sun-hardened.
Evans-Pritchard notes that mother-in-law avoidance was practicised during the brick-making that he witnessed here, the men dispersing as female relations approached with water.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 December
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Sillok
Group:
Aka (Sillok)
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Social Life , Raw Material
Activity:
Manufacturing
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
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.
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 154. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.2
Note on negative ms ink - "N"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 154. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.2
Note on negative ms ink - "N"
Other Information:
In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, pages 3-4 & 6, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard discusses in some detail this particular brick-making scene as well as the instance of mother-in-law avoidance that accompanied it.
[Chris Morton 13/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
