Sowing field in Anuakland
82 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.124
Previous Other Number:
05 (278)
Accession Number:
1998.342.124.2
Description:
Men sowing seed into small holes dug in a field and covering them with earth using their feet.
A youth holding a gourd container of seed stands nearby.
Predominantly agriculturalists, the Anuak clear the fields (often in forest soil) sometime around March and April and sow in May as the rains come on.
The location is noted as Cam-war-Akwei's village, most probably Utalo.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1935 May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Utalo
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Field
Activity:
Sowing
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.
Notes on print/mount - "05 278 Sowing at Cam Akwei's village"
Notes on print/mount - "05 278 Sowing at Cam Akwei's village"
Other Information:
Cam-war-Akwei is mentioned at some length on pages 95-7 of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940), and his genealogy presented on page 150, showing three sons of Akwei called Cam, from three different wives Adidh, Acala and Akelo.
It is not clear which Cam was head of the lineage since two were alive in 1935.
The first Cam-war-Akwei was invested with the emblems on the death of Akwei-wa-Cam in 1921, when the British took control of Anuakland.
Although young, he held them until 1927 when the administration decided to control the kingship directly with a council of nobles in yearly rotation.
This Cam was imprisoned and died in colonial captivity in 1933.
During E-P's expedition in 1935 a brother, also named Cam-war-Akwei was the head of the Nyiudola lineage, probably also living at Utalo village as his deceased brother had done.
[Chris Morton 6/1/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
