Village on Jebel Sillok

Village on Jebel Sillok
103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.203.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.203
Previous Other Number:
P 8


Accession Number:
1998.344.203.1
Description:
Looking down through trees at huts of an Aka settlement built on a flat area on the rocky hill. The language of the Aka people of Jebel Sillok is part of the Berta group of languages. They called themselves Fa-c-aka or people of Aka.
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:
Topography , Settlement , Shelter
Keyword:
Village , Building House
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"] - 203. Village. (Sillok). P.8

Note on negative ms ink - "P"

Other Information:
In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, page 3, E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'all the huts are built on the top of the hill wherever a flat peice of rock gives sufficient basis for building mud walls on which a conical straw roof is mounted.' [Chris Morton 23/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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