Ingessana boys washing in stream

103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.2.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.2

Previous Other Number:

DD 11

Accession Number:

1998.344.2.1

Description:

Two boys splashing water from a spring-fed stream to wash, possibly during a break in herding goats. Predominantly pastoral, the Ingessana kept their herds of cattle, sheep and goats at grazing grounds often large distances (Evans-Pritchard estimates up to 3 or 4 hours) from their hill habitations.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1926 November - December

Region:

Blue Nile Tabi Hills Soda

Group:

Ingessana (Gaam)

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Toilet , Water Supply

Keyword:

Rivers & Streams

Activity:

Bathing

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"] - 2. Scenery. Children washing. DD-11

Note on negative scratched - "D-D 11"

Other Information:

In A Preliminary Account of the Ingassana Tribe in Fung Province, Sudan Notes and Records X, 1927, page 70, E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Soda, the site of the old Government Station and the place from where I did my work, is one of those partly enclosed plains lying on the south-west edge of the massif... The district of Soda has an everlasting stream of fresh spring water which flows through it.' [Chris Morton 27/1/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 27/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]