Jur grave posts
97 x 71 mm | Negative film Nitrate
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1998.351.4.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 71 mm)
1998.351.4.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 71 mm)
Condition:
Fading [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.J.4
Previous Other Number:
2 96
Accession Number:
1998.351.4.1
Description:
Carved grave posts set into the earth around a number of stone grave mounds, tallying numbers of large animals killed by the deceased as a means of honouring the individual, all forked in immitation of animal horns.
These graves are similar in appearance to Bongo grave tallies, and it is likely that they carried similar cultural meanings for other neighbouring non cattle-keeping groups.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1929 March
Region:
[Southern Sudan] El Buyherat Toinya
Group:
Beli ?; Sofi ? [Rumbek Jur]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Death , Carving
Keyword:
Grave , Grave Marker , Memorial
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.
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In The Non-Dinka peoples of the Amadi and Rumbek Districts, Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.1, 1937, page 156, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'In 1929 I trekked from Tonj to Rumbek and then Southwards to the neighbourhood of Toinya, where I spent rather under a fortmight gathering information about the non-Dinka tribes of Rumbek district.' [Chris Morton 26/1/2004] This negative was found in the Luo series during cataloguing in 2007 and re-numbered to match up with the print in the Jur series.
[CM 23/04/2007]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 26/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
