Anuak noble with men
82 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.128.1 - Negative film nitrate , (82 x 53 mm)
1998.342.128.1 - Negative film nitrate , (82 x 53 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.128
Previous Other Number:
05 (274)
Accession Number:
1998.342.128.2
Description:
A group of youths seated on the ground around a nobleman (identified as Cam-war-Akwei) who is sitting on an antelope skin, wrapped in a textile with a European hat.
This Cam-war-Akwei was one of three so-named sons of Akwei-wa-Cam, one of the most powerful nobles of the preceeding generation who lived at Utalo, and was head of a noble lineage.
His brother, also called Cam, held the royal emblems from 1921-27 but died in colonial captivity in 1933.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Utalo
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Cam-war-Akwei
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing , Skin Preparation , Clothing Headgear , Social Life
Event:
Meeting
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 - "05 274 Cam Akwei"
Notes on print/mount - "05 274 Cam Akwei"
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]
