Ingessana string making
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.55.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.55.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Condition:
Fading [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.55
Previous Other Number:
J 10
Accession Number:
1998.344.55.2
Description:
A man wearing a headband of leather making a length of cord by weaving together strands of baobab (or tebeldi) fibre from a bundle at his feet, drawing the fibre between his toes.
He is sitting at the base of the large Adansonia digitata (baobab) tree seen in other images, the source for his string fibre.
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:
Raw Material
Keyword:
String
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"] - 55. Making cord from Tebeldi bark. J.10
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "making string J10"
Notes on card mount ms pencil - "fading 10/11/86 EE"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 55. Making cord from Tebeldi bark. J.10
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "making string J10"
Notes on card mount ms pencil - "fading 10/11/86 EE"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 3/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
