Ingessana grinding shelter

Ingessana grinding shelter
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.28.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.28
Previous Other Number:
H 2


Accession Number:
1998.344.28.2
Description:
A woman (unidentified) standing at a raised grinding bench within an unfinished circular shelter, the roof supports of which encircle her. The bench seems to consist of a surface of hardened clay soil with flat stones placed on top.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills ?Soda
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XLVIa (facing page 434) In C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption 'Ingassana, raised bench with grindstones' [CM 18/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Domestic Life
Keyword:
Grinder , Building
Activity:
Food Preparing , Grinding
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"] - 28. Grinding table. H.2.

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "unfinished shelter showing grinding stone raised from the ground H2"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 29/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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